It is not improbable that other sentient beings have organs
of sense which do not respond to some or any of the rays to
which our eyes are sensitive, but are able to appreciate
other vibrations to which we are blind. Such beings would
practically be living in a different world to our own.
Imagine, for instance, what idea we should form of
surrounding objects were we endowed with eyes not sensitive
to the ordinary rays of light, but sensitive to the
vibrations concerned in electric and magnetic phenomena.
Glass and crystal would be among the most opaque of bodies.
Metals would be more or less transparent, and a telegraph
wire through the air would look like a long narrow hole
drilled through an impervious solid body. A dynamo in active
work would resemble a conflagration, whilst a permanent
magnet would realise the dream of mediaeval mystics, and
become an everlasting lamp with no expenditure of energy or
consumption of fuel.[18]
Kamaloka is a region peopled by intelligent and semi-intelligent
entities, just as our own is thus peopled; it is crowded, like our
world, with many types and forms of living things, as diverse from
each other as a blade of grass is different from a tiger, a tiger from
a man. It interpenetrates our own world and is interpenetrated by it,
but, as the states of matter in the two worlds differ, they co-exist
without the knowledge of the intelligent beings in either. Only under
abnormal circumstances can consciousness of each other's presence
arise among the inhabitants of the two worlds; by certain peculiar
training a living human being can come into conscious contact with and
control many of the sub-human denizens of Kamaloka; human beings, who
have quitted earth and in whom the kamic elements were strong, may
very readily be attracted by the kamic elements in embodied men, and
by their help become conscious again of the presence of the scenes
they had left; and human beings still embodied may set up methods of
communication with the disembodied, and may, as said, leave their own
bodies for awhile, and become conscious in Kamaloka by the use of
faculties through which they have accustomed their consciousness to
act. The point which is here to be clearly grasped is the existence
of Kamaloka as a definite region, inhabited by a large diversity of
entities, among whom are disembodied human beings.
From this necessary digression we return to the particular human being
whose fate, as a type, we may be said to be tracing, and of whose
dense body and etheric double we have already disposed. Let us
contemplate him in the state of very brief duration that follows the
shaking off of these two casings. Says H.P. Blavatsky, after quoting
from Plutarch a description of the man after death:
Here you have our doctrine, which shows man a _septenary_
during life; a _quintile_ just after death, in Kamaloka.[19]
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