THE DEVACHANIC PLANE /COMPLETE

 

CREATED BY WISDOM DRAGONS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Theosophical manual. No. 6

 

The Devachanic Plane

OR

 

THE HEAVEN WORLD

 

ITS CHARACTERISTICS AND INHABITANTS

 

by

C. W. Leadbeater

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PREFACE

 

 

 

Few words are needed in sending this little book out into the world. It is the sixth of a series of Manuals designed to meet the public demand for a simple exposition of Theosophical teachings. Some have complained that our literature is at once too abstruse, too technical, and too expensive for the ordinary reader, and it is our hope, that the present series may succeed in supplying what is a very real want. Theosophy is not only for the learned; it is for all. Perhaps among those who in these little books catch their first glimpse of its teachings, there may be a few who will be led by them to penetrate more deeply into its philosophy, its science and its religion, facing its abstruser problems with the students zeal and -the neophyte's ardour. But these Manuals are not written only for the eager student, whom no initial difficulties can daunt; they are written for the busy men and women of the work-a-day world, and seek to make plain some of the great truths that render life easier to bear and death easier to face. Written by servants of the Masters who are the Elder Brothers of our race, they can have no other object than to serve our fellow-men.

 

 

 

AUTHOR'S NOTE

 

 

 

Since further enquiry has shown that the word " Devachan" is etymologically inaccurate and misleading, the author would prefer to omit it altogether, and to issue this manual under the simpler and more descriptive title of "The Mental Plane." The publishers inform him, however, that this alteration of title would cause difficulties in the matter of copyright, and produce confusion in various ways, so he defers to their wishes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONTENTS

 

 

Introduction.

The place of the mental plane in evolution—Difficulties of expression

 

General Characteristics

— A beautiful description— The bliss of the Heaven-World— Its intense vitality—A new method of cognition—Surroundings—The sea of light—The colour-language of the angels—The great waves—The lower and the higher heaven-worlds—The action of thought—The formation of artificial elementals—Thought-forms—The sub-planes—The records of the past

 

Inhabitants

I. Human—

The embodied— Adepts and their pupils—Those in sleep or trance. The disembodied—Their consciousness—The qualities necessary for the heaven-life—How a man first gains it. The lower heavens, with examples from each. The reality of the heaven-life. The renunciation of heaven. The higher heavens

 

 

II.Non-Human

 

—The elemental essence—What it is— The veiling of the Spirit—The elemental kingdoms— How the essence evolves. The animal kingdom. The Devas—Their classes

 

III.Artificial

Artificial

 

Conclusion

—The still higher planes