The Inner Life (Theosophical Talks at Adyar)

TO be psychic means to be able to bring through into the hy sical consciousness something of the wider life ; it is therefore in the condition of the physical vehicle that there is an inequality between thv psychic and the ordinary peson but when the physical is dropped that inequality no longer exists.6 ADYAR TALKS THE RELATION OF THS DEAD TO EARTH A dead Juan is often aware of the feeings [...] The astral counterparts of the floor Walls and furniture of a room are all of the lowest type of astral matter and consequently the man newly dead usually sees these counterparts vividly and is almost entirely unconscious of the vast sea of thought-forms which encompasses him because nearly all those forms are built out of combinations of the finer types of astral matter. [...] There is a. certain amount of solid matter and a great deal of liquid matter floating in the air above us but still it remains broadly true that the zone of solid matter is limited by the surface of the earth and the zone of liquid matter by the upper surface of the clouds while the zone of gaseous matter extends a great many miles above that and the zone of specialised etheric matter a great [...] Such an one has the consciousness of the ego at hit disposal during the whole of his physical life and that is not at all affected by the death of the phyical body nor even by the second and third deaths in which he leaves behind him the astral and the mental bodies re-. spectively. [...] Occasionally the action of such a force upon the ego of a surviving friend may manifest itself even in the personality' of that friend upon the physical plane.- The action is upon the ego through the special thought-form ; but the personality of ithe sur%iving friend in this world is a mani-KARMA IN THE HEAVEN-LIFE festation of that same ego and if the ego be considerably modified it is at least