Theos-Talk Archives (June 2005 Message tt00249)

Konstantin,

You wrote:

> To be more correct, when speaking about fast arrival to
> devachan I have meant rather HPB than ML:
> 
> "The first exception is during the few days that follow
> immediately the death of a person and before the Ego passes
> into the Devachanic state." (Key to theosophy)

But does the KEY TO THEOSOPHY passage you quote above
actually tell us about the "fast arrival to devachan"?

Here is a more complete extract from the KEY:

ENQUIRER. In no case, then, do you admit the possibility of the 
communication of the living with the disembodied spirit? 

THEOSOPHIST. Yes, there is a case, and even two exceptions to the 
rule. The first exception is during the few days that follow 
immediately the death of a person and before the Ego passes into the 
Devachanic state. Whether any living mortal, save a few exceptional 
cases -- (when the intensity of the desire in the dying person to 
return for some purpose forced the higher consciousness to remain 
awake, and therefore it was really the individuality, the "Spirit" 
that communicated) -- has derived much benefit from the return of 
the spirit into the objective plane is another question. The spirit 
is dazed after death and falls very soon into what we call "pre-
devachanic unconsciousness." The second exception is found in the 
Nirmanakayas

Quoted from:
http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/key/key-9.htm

Daniel
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