Is an astral locality, the Limbus of scholastic theology, the Hades of the ancients, and, strictly speaking, a locality only in a relative sense.  It has neither a definite area, nor boundary, but exists within subjective space, i.e., is beyond our sensuous perceptions.  Still it exists, and it is there that the astral eidolons of all the beings that have lived, animals included, await their second death.  For the animals it comes with the disintegration and the entire fading out of their astral particles to the last.  For the human eidolon it begins when the Atma-Buddhi-Manasic Triad is said to “separate” itself from its lower principles or the reflection of the ex-personality, by falling into the Devachanic state.[21]

This second death is the passage, then, of the Immortal Triad from the kamalokic sphere, so closely related to the earth sphere, into the higher state of Devachan, of which we must speak later.  The type of man we are considering passes through this, in the peaceful dreamy state already described, and, if left undisturbed, will not regain full consciousness until these stages are passed through, and peace gives way to bliss.

But during the whole period that the four principles—­the Immortal Triad and Kama—­remain in Kamaloka, whether the period be long or short, days or centuries, they are within the reach of the earth-influences.  In the case of such a person as we have been describing, an awakening may be caused by the passionate sorrow and desires of friends left on earth, and these violently vibrating kamic elements in the embodied persons may set up vibrations in the desire body of the disembodied, and so reach and rouse the lower Manas, not yet withdrawn to and reunited with its parent, the Spiritual Intelligence.  Thus it may be roused from its dreamy state to vivid remembrance of the earth-life so lately left, and may—­if any sensitive or medium is concerned, either directly, or indirectly through one of these grieving friends in communication with the medium—­use the medium’s etheric and dense bodies to speak or write to those left behind.  This awakening is often accompanied with acute suffering, and even if this be avoided, the natural process of the Triad freeing itself is rudely disturbed, and the completion of its freedom is delayed.  In speaking of this possibility of communication during the period immediately succeeding death and before the freed Man passes on into Devachan, H.P.  Blavatsky says: 

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