s Immortal
Triad, the true Man, draws in all his forces; he draws into himself
the memories of the earth-life just ended, its loves, its hopes, its
aspirations, and prepares to pass out of Kamaloka into the blissful
rest of Devachan, the "abode of the Gods", or as some say, "the land
of bliss". Kamaloka

Is an astral locality, the Limbus of scholastic theology, the
Hades of the ancients, and, strictly speaking, a _locality_
only in a relative sense. It has neither a definite area, nor
boundary, but exists _within_ subjective space, _i.e._, is
beyond our sensuous perceptions. Still it exists, and it is
there that the astral _eidolons_ of all the beings that have
lived, animals included, await their _second death_. For the
animals it comes with the disintegration and the entire
fading out of their astral particles to the last. For the
human _eidolon_ it begins when the Atma-Buddhi-Manasic Triad
is said to "separate" itself from its lower principles or the
reflection of the ex-personality, by falling into the
Devachanic state.[21]

This second death is the passage, then, of the Immortal Triad from the
kamalokic sphere, so closely related to the earth sphere, into the
higher state of Devachan, of which we must speak later. The type of
man we are considering passes through this, in the peaceful dreamy
state already described, and, if left undisturbed, will not regain
full consciousness until these stages are passed through, and peace
gives way to bliss.

But during the whole period that the four principles--the Immortal
Triad and Kama--remain in Kamaloka, whether the period be long or
short, days or centuries, they are within the reach of the
earth-influences. In the case of such a person as we have been
describing, an awakening may be caused by the passionate sorrow and
desires of friends left on earth, and these violently vibrating kamic
elements in the embodied persons may set up vibrations in the desire
body of the disembodied, and so reach and rouse the lower Manas, not
yet withdrawn to and reunited with its parent, the Spiritual
Intelligence. Thus it may be roused from its dreamy state to vivid
remembrance of the earth-life so lately left, and may--if any
sensitive or medium is concerned, either directly, or indirectly
through one of these grieving friends in communication with the
medium--use the medium's etheric and dense bodies to speak or write to
those left