"'_Devachan_', says our Guru--speaking through his disciple in order to escape from this dilemma--'will seem as real as the chairs and tables round us; and remember that above all things, to the profound philosophy of occultism, are the chairs and tables, and the whole objective scenery of the world, unreal and merely transitory delusions of sense.' If, as he admits, they are material, why should they be more unreal than the chairs and tables in _devachan_, which are also material, since occult science contemplates no principle in nature as wholly immaterial? The fact is, that there is no more unreal and transitory delusion of sense than those 'states' known to the adepts as _devachan_ or _nirvana_; they are mere dreamlands, invented by metaphysicians, and lived in by them after death--which are used by them to encourage a set of dreamers here to evade the practical duties which they owe to their fellow-men in this world. 'Hence it is possible,' says our author, 'for yet living persons to have visions of _devachan_, though such visions are rare and only one- sided, the entities in _devachan_, sighted by the earthly clairvoyant, being quite unconscious themselves of undergoing such observation.' This is an erroneous and incorrect assumption on the Guru's part. 'The spirit of the clairvoyant,' he goes on, 'ascends into the condition of _devachan_ in such rare visions, and thus becomes subject to the vivid delusions of that existence.' Vivid delusions indeed, the fatal consequences of which are, that they separate their votaries from the practical duties of life, and create a class of idle visionaries who, wrapping themselves in their own vain conceits, would stand by and allow their fellow-creatures to starve to death, because, as Mr Sinnett frankly tells us, 'if spiritual existence, vivid subjective consciousness, really does go on for periods greater than the periods of intellectual physical existence, in the ratio, as we have seen in discussing the devachanic condition, of 80 to 1 at least, then surely man's subjective existence is more important than his physical existence and intellect in error, when all its efforts are bent on the amelioration of the physical existence.'