THEOSOPHY
DEVACHAN
From the
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Helena
Petrovna Blavatsky
1831-1891
The
Founder of Modern Theosophy
Devachan
By
Helena
Petrovna Blavatsky
Devachan is the state of consciousness which the Ego eventually
reaches after the death of the physical body and when the desires of the
personality have been discarded. It is often referred to by Theosophists as the
second death
This article is a response by H P Blavatsky to a
question about this state
To realize the conditions of spiritual existence of
any sort it is necessary to get above the plane of merely physical perceptions.
One cannot see the things of the spirit with the eyes of the flesh, and one
cannot successfully appreciate subjective phenomena by help only of those fully
appreciate subjective phenomena by help only of those intellectual reflections
which appertain to the physical senses. "How can a conscious existence
without activity or pursuit be one of satisfaction or enjoyment?" It would
only emphasize the mistaken idea which this questions embodies if one were to
ask instead, "how can a conscious existence without athletic sports and
hunting be one of enjoyment?" The cravings of man's animal or even human
nature are not permanent in their character.
The demands of the mind are different from those of
the body. In physical life an ever-recurring desire for change impresses our
imagination with the idea that there can be no continuity of contentment,
without variety of occupation and amusement. To realize completely the way in
which a single vein of spiritual
consciousness may continue for considerable periods of
time to engage the attention - of a spiritual entity, is probably posssible
only for persons who already in life have developed certain inner faculties,
dormant in mankind at large. But meanwhile our present correspondent may
perhaps derive some satisfaction from the fact - as explained in recent essays
on the subject - that
one sort of variety is developed in Devachan to a very
high degree; viz. the variety which naturally grows out of the simple themes
set in vibration during life.
Immense growths, for example, of knowledge itself are
possible in Devachan, for the spiritual entity which has begun the
"pursuit" of such knowledge during life. Nothing can happen to a
spirit in Devachan, the keynote of which has not been struck during life; the
conditions of a subjective existence are such that the importation of quite
external impulses and alien thoughts is impossible. But the seed of thought
once sown, the current of thoughts once set going (the metaphor may freely be
varied to suit any taste), and then its developments in Devachan may be
infinite, for the sixth sense there and the sixth principle are our
instructors; and in such society there can be no isolation, as physical
humanity understands the term. The spiritual ego in fact, under the tuition of
his own sixth principle, need be in no fear of being dull, and would be as
likely to sigh for a doll's house or a box of ninepins as for the harps and
palm leaves of the mediaeval Heaven.
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Defintion of Devachan given in H P Blavatsky’s
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