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During life, even, he gets above the Devachanic attraction.

But the complexity to be dealt with is more serious than even the various conditions of Devachanic existence can meet.

Another difficulty about this subject is whether the Devachanic entity can be communicated with by living men.

But enough has been said to explain the nature of the devachanic state, which is one of rest and spiritual enjoyment.

How long does the incarnating Ego remain in the Devachanic state?

Moving downwake through the Devachanic Realm at a speed of twenty-five dreams per second.

As with this Devachanic "mother," so with the rest of human relationships and attachments, save the purely selfish or material.

During every Devachanic period the Ego, omniscient as it is per se, clothes itself, so to say, with the reflection of the "personality" that was.

It must not be supposed that the real Ego slips instantaneously at death from the earth life and its entanglements, into the Devachanic condition.

But as he develops, this period of his life becomes more and more important, and occupies a greater proportion of his Devachanic existence.

Devachanic periods vary for different people within such very wide limits that any rule laid down in the matter must be subject to a bewildering cloud of exceptions.

An erroneous impression is produced by this as to the reality of Devachanic existence; but a correct apprehension of what reality is will remove such misconceptions.

Nor is all their devachanic life spent in this devotional ecstasy, for they have full opportunities of maturing every other quality they may possess of heart and mind.

And yet the highest Devachanic state in arûpa loca is not to be compared to that wonderful condition of pure spirituality which is spoken of as Nirvana.

It must not, however, be concluded from this that the Devachanic entity does not affect earthly men at all; on the contrary, they are to us a perennial source of spiritual energy.

For no sooner is the Devachanic state of reward ended, than the Ego is indissolubly united with (or rather follows in the track of) the new Astral Form.

Theosophical Manual N 6: The Devachanic Plane or The Heaven World Its Characteristics and Inhabitants (1896)

For instance, in what is here referred to as earthly affinity, we need not include the exercise of affection, which is a function of Devachanic existence in a pre-eminent degree.

For the human eidolonit 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.

I have spoken already of the way in which the Devachanic life is in itself a process of growth, maturity, and decline; but the analogies of earth are even more closely preserved.

It is under the impression that the spirits, with which it is in Devachanic bonds of sympathy, have come down to visit earth and itself, while the converse operation has really taken place.

In the later case, the higher consciousness of the individual Spiritual aspirations of mind (Manas), assimilating Buddhi, are absorbed by it and form the Ego, which goes into Devachanic bliss.

Consciousness and the remembrance of the past life return slowly as the Ego enters the devachanic state, as a baby through infancy gradually awakens to the (to it) novel surroundings of earth life.

As each such life is composed of days of activity separated by nights of sleep or of inaction, so, in the incarnation cycle, an active life is followed by a Devachanic rest.

As the man evolves, his devachanic lives become fuller, richer, more and more real, and advanced souls come into ever closer and closer contact with each other, enjoying wider and deeper intercourse.