ghts. At such times sensitives
may believe that those with whom they are for the moment _en
rapport_ descend to earth and communicate with them, whereas,
in reality, it is merely their own spirits which, being
correctly attuned to those others, are for the time blended
with them.[50]

In a special case under examination, H.P. Blavatsky said that the
communication might have come from an Elementary, but that it was

Far more likely that the medium's spirit really became _en
rapport_ with some spiritual entity in Devachan, the
thoughts, knowledge, and sentiments of which formed the
substance, while the medium's own personality and
pre-existing ideas more or less governed the forms of the
communication.[51]

While these communications are not reliable in the facts and opinions
stated,

We would remark that it may _possibly_ be that there really
is a distinct spiritual entity impressing our correspondent's
mind. In other words, there may, for all we know, be some
spirit, with whom his spiritual nature becomes habitually,
for the time, thoroughly harmonised, and whose thoughts,
language, &c., become his for the time, the result being that
this spirit seems to communicate with him.... It is possible
(though by no means probable) that he habitually passes into
a state of _rapport_ with a genuine spirit, and, for the
time, is assimilated therewith, thinking (to a great extent
if not entirely) the thoughts that spirit would think,
writing in its handwriting, &c. But even so, Mr. Terry must
not fancy that that spirit is consciously communicating with
him, or knows in any way anything of him, or any other
person or thing on earth. It is simply that, the _rapport_
established, he, Mr. Terry, becomes for the nonce assimilated
with that other personality, and thinks, speaks, and writes
as it would have done on earth.... The molecules of his
astral nature may from time to time vibrate in perfect unison
with those of some spirit of such a person, now in Devachan,
and the result may be that he appears to be in communication
with that spirit, and to be advised, &c., by him, and
clairvoyants may see in the Astral Light a picture of the
earth-life form of that spirit.

IV. Communications other than those from disembodied Souls, passing
through normal _post mortem_ states.

(a) _From Shells.