o long as the merits of
the old [personal] Ego entitle the being to reap the fruit of
its reward in its new regenerated Egoship. It occurs after
the gestation period is over, and the new spiritual Ego is
reborn--like the fabled Phoenix from its ashes--from the
old one. The locality which the former inhabits is called by
the northern Buddhist Occultists "Devachan."[48]

So also may the incorporeal principles of pure sensitives be placed
_en rapport_ with disembodied Souls, although information thus
obtained is not reliable, partly in consequence of the difficulty of
transferring to the physical brain the impressions received, and
partly from the difficulty of observing accurately, when the seer is
untrained.[49]

A pure medium's Ego can be drawn to and made, for an instant,
to unite in a magnetic(?) relation with a real disembodied
spirit, whereas the soul of an impure medium can only
confabulate with the _Astral Soul_, or Shell, of the
deceased. The former possibility explains those extremely
rare cases of direct writing in recognised autographs, and of
messages from the higher class of disembodied intelligences.

But the confusion in messages thus obtained is considerable, not only
from the causes above-named, but also because

Even the best and purest sensitive can at most only be placed
at any time _en rapport_ with a particular spiritual entity,
and can only know, see, and feel what that particular entity
knows, sees, and feels.

Hence much possibility of error if generalisations are indulged in,
since each Devachani lives in his own paradise, and there is no
"peeping down to earth,"

Nor is there any _conscious_ communication with the flying
Souls that come as it were to learn where the Spirits are,
what they are doing, and what they think, feel, and see.

What then is being _en rapport_? It is simply an identity of
molecular vibration between the astral part of the
incarnated sensitive and the astral part of the
dis-incarnated personality. The spirit of the sensitive gets
"odylised", so to speak, by the aura of the spirit, whether
this be hybernating in the earthly region or dreaming in the
Devachan; identity of molecular vibration is established, and
for a brief space the sensitive becomes the departed
personality, and writes in its handwriting, uses its
language, and thinks its thou