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ROSICRUCIAN PHILOSOPHY
QUESTION No. 122.
Are not the desire bodies left ~by progressing Egos used
by elemental* to deceive friends and relatives of the deceased
person? How can they be detected and recognized?
Answer: When the spirit has passed out at death, and
after a stay in Purgatoiy of shorter or longer duration
enters the First Heaven, it still has with it the desire
body used during the earth life, but when it enters the
Second Heaven that desire body is left behind in a like
manner as the vital and dense bodies were left at death
and shortly after. But, while the dense body iroes to de-
becomes inert and useless at once
cav and di c
intsgrates,
when the spirit has left it, it is very different with the
desire body. The material of which that body is com-
posed is so much more vitalized by the Universal Spirit
that it will retain the ability to move about a long time
after the spirit. The empty shell is drawn by magnetic
attraction to those with whom it associated during earth
life and a memory of that past life very
often enables it to
pose successfully as a deceased relative. This is particu-
larly the case when the shell is used by an elemental entity.
These empty shells ensouled by elementals account very
satisfactorily for most of the phenomena encountered at
spiritualistic seances. The pranks of these elementals in
spilling water down the necks of the sitters, throwing
chairs, tables and the like about, are specimens of what
may be done by such empty shells when in the possession
of elementals.
As to how they may be detected or recognized by us, it
will be vident that whi'e our deceased friends and rela-