CHAPTER VI.

KAMA LOCA.
The statements already made in reference to tte destiny of the' higter hiiman principles at death, •will pave the way for a comprehension of the circumstances in Tvhich the inferior remnant of these principles finds itself, after the real Ego has passed either into the Devachanic state, or that un- conscious intervening period of preparation therefor •which corresponds to physical gestation. The sphere in -which such remnants remain for a time is known to occult science as Kama loca, the region of desire, not the region in -which desire is developed to any abnormal degree of intensity as compared -with desire as it attaches to earth- life, but the sphere in -which that sensation of desire, which is a part of the earth-life, is capable of surviving.
It -will be obvious, from -what has been said about Devachan, that a large part of the recollec- tions -«hich accumulate round the human Ego during life are incompatible in their nature -with the pure subjective existence to -which the real, durable, spiritual Ego passes; but they are not necessarily on that account extinguished or anni- hilated out of existence. They inhere in certain molecules of those finer (but not finest) principles.
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■which escape from the body at death ; and just as dissolution separates what is loosely called the soul from the body, so also it provokes a further separa- tion between the constituent elements of the soul. So much of the fifth principle, or human soul, which is in its nature assimilable with, or has gravitated upwards toward, the sixth principle, the spiritual soul, passes with the germ of that divine soul into the superior region, or state of Devachan, in which it separates itself almost completely, from the attractions of the earth ; quite completely, as far as its own spiritual coiirse is concerned, though it still has certain affinities with the spiritual aspirations emanating from the earth, and may sometimes draw these towards itself. But the animal soul, or fourth principle (the element of will and desire as associated with objective existence), has no up- Avard attraction, and no more passes away from the earth than the particles of the body consigned to the grave. It is not in the grave, however, that this fourth principle can be put away. It is not spiritual in its nature or affinities, but it is not physical in its nature. In its affinities it is physical, and hence the result. It remains within the actual physical local attraction of the earth — in the earth's atmosphere — or, since it is not the gases of the atmosphere that are specially to be considered in connection with the problem in hand, let us say, in Kama loca.
And with the fourth principle a large part (as regards most of mankind unfortunately, though a