the Triad has shaken off its last garment, it crosses the
threshold of Devachan, and becomes "a Devachani". We have seen that
it is in a peaceful dreamy state before this passage out of the earth
sphere, the "second death", or "pre-devachanic unconsciousness". This
condition is otherwise spoken of as the "gestation" period, because it
precedes the birth of the Ego into the devachanic life. Regarded from
the earth-sphere the passage is death, while regarded from that of
Devachan it is birth. Thus we find in "Notes on Devachan":

_As in actual earth-life, so there is for the Ego in Devachan
the first flutter of psychic life, the attainment of prime,
the gradual exhaustion of force passing into
semi-consciousness and lethargy, total oblivion, and--not
death but birth, birth into another personality, and the
resumption of action which daily begets new congeries of
causes that must be worked out in another term of Devachan,
and still another physical birth as a new personality. What
the lives in Devachan and upon earth shall be respectively in
each instance is determined by Karma, and this weary round of
birth must be ever and ever run through until the being
reaches the end of the seventh Round, or attains in the
interim the wisdom of an Arhat, then that of a Buddha, and
thus gets relieved for a Round or two._

When the devachanic entity is born into this new sphere it has passed
beyond recall to earth. The embodied Soul may rise to it, but it
cannot be drawn back to our world. On this a Master has spoken
decisively:

_From Sukhavati down to the "Territory of Doubt," there is a
variety of spiritual states, but ... as soon as it has
stepped outside the Kamaloka, crossed the "Golden Bridge"
leading to the "Seven Golden Mountains," the Ego can
confabulate no more with easy-going mediums. No Ernest or
Joey has ever returned from the Rupa Loka, let alone the
Arupa Loka, to hold sweet intercourse with men._

In the "Notes on Devachan," again, we read:

_Certainly the new Ego, once that it is reborn (in Devachan),
retains for a certain time--proportionate to its
earth-life--a complete recollection "of his life on earth";
but it can never revisit the Earth from Devachan except in
Re-incarnation._

The Devachani is generally spoken of as the Immortal Triad,
Atma-Buddhi-Manas, but it is well always to bear in mind that