THEO. When the man dies, his lower three principles leave him for ever; _i.e._, body, life, and the vehicle of the latter, the astral body or the double of the _living_ man. And then, his four principles—the central or middle principle, the animal soul or _Kama-rupa_, with what it has assimilated from the lower Manas, and the higher triad find themselves in _Kama-loka_. The latter 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. ENQ. And what happens after this? THEO. Then the _Kama-rupic_ phantom, remaining bereft of its informing thinking principle, the higher _Manas_, and the lower aspect of the latter, the animal intelligence, no longer receiving light from the higher mind, and no longer having a physical brain to work through, collapses. ENQ. In what way? THEO. Well, it falls into the state of the frog when certain portions of its brain are taken out by the vivisector. It can think no more, even on the lowest animal plane. Henceforth it is no longer even the lower Manas, since this “lower” is nothing without the “higher.” ENQ. And is it _this_ nonentity which we find materializing in Séance rooms with Mediums? THEO. It is this nonentity. A true nonentity, however, only as to reasoning or cogitating powers, still an _Entity_, however astral and fluidic, as shown in certain cases when, having been magnetically and unconsciously drawn toward a medium, it is revived for a time and lives in him by _proxy_, so to speak. This “spook,” or the Kama-rupa, may be compared with the _jelly-fish_, which has an ethereal gelatinous appearance so long as it is in its own element, or water (the _medium’s specific AURA_), but which, no sooner is it thrown out of it, than it dissolves in the hand or on the sand, especially in sunlight. In the medium’s Aura, it lives a kind of vicarious life and reasons and speaks either through the medium’s brain or those of other persons present. But this would lead us too far, and upon other people’s grounds, whereon I have no desire to trespass. Let us keep to the subject of re-incarnation.