Theos-Talk Archives (February 2003 Message tt00110)

> I pointed out to Rich Taylor, who is an Orientak scholar, that 
> Blavatskty's comments on devachan seemed to me to be references to 
> the "Pure Land" idea and he said the literal meaning of "devachan" 
> was "Pure Land." Do that is where I got that from. Deva does 
indeed 
> mean "god" but in Buddhism the denizens of the heaven worlds are 
said 
> to be "gods". Thus if your dearly departed Aunt Ninny is in 
Heaven, 
> she would according to this nomenclature be a "goddess."
Well, your dearly departed Aunt Ninny's higher triad, is a god(dess) 
compared to what she was before she left her physical body. I hear 
the body greatly impedes our potential. Anyhow, even if that's not 
true - since our mutual aunt can forge her own destiny in devachan, 
she is as powerfull there as any magician or god. 

Katinka