The Secret Doctrine Volume 3.pdf

Life cannot come immediately from the subjective to the objective, for Nature goes
gradually through each sphere. Therefore the Linga Sharîra is the intermediary
between Prâna and our physical body, and pumps in the life.
The spleen is consequently a very delicate organ, but the physical spleen is only a
cover for the real spleen.
Now Life is in reality Divinity; Parabrahman. But in order to manifest on the physical
Plane it must be assimilated; and as the purely physical is too gross, it must have a
medium, viz., the Astral.
(Page 594) Astral matter is not homogeneous, and the Astral Light is nothing but the
shadow of the real Divine Light; it is however not molecular.
Those (Kâmarûpic) entities which are below the Devachanic Plane are in Kama Loka
and only possess intelligence like monkeys. There are no entities in the four lower
kingdoms possessing intelligence which can communicate with men, but the
Elementals have instincts like animals. It is, however possible for the Sylphs (the Air
Elementals, the wickedest things in the world) to commuicate, but they require to be
propitiated.
Spooks (Kâmarûpic entities) can only give the information they see immediately
before them. They see things in the Aura of people, although the people may not be
aware of them themselves.
Earth-bound spirits are Kâmalokic entities that have been so materialistic that they
cannot be dissolved for a long time. They have only a glimmering of consciousness
and do not know why they are held, some sleep, some preserve a glimmering of
consciousness and suffer torture.
In the case of people who have very little Devachan, the greater part of the
consciousness remains in Kâma Loka, and may last far beyond the normal period of
one hundred and fifty years and remain over until the next reincarnation of the Spirit.
This then, becomes the Dweller on the Threshold and fights with the new Astral.
The acme of Kâma is the sexual instinct, e.g., idiots have such desires and also food
appetites, etc., and nothing else.
Devachan is a state on a plane of spiritual consciousness; Kâma Loka is a place of
physical consciousness. It is the shadow of the animal world and that of instinctual
feeling. When the consciousness thinks of spiritual things, it is on a spiritual plane.
If one’s thoughts are of nature, flowers, etc., then the consciousness is on the
material plane.
But if thoughts are about eating, drinking, etc., and the passions, then the
consciousness is in the Kâmalokic plane, which is the plane of animal instincts pure
and simple.
PEACE TO ALL BEINGS
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