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Devachanic existence does not always begin immediately after death. The period in the case of very good people begins immediately and the transition of Kamaloka is not felt.
There are no doubt a few other cases, such as that of an infant, whose monad has exhausted the results of its Karma, or where there is some physical reason against existence in a particular body, where the reincarnation may take place after a few minutes, or on the other hand it may not do so for a hundred years, during which period the entity is in a profound sleep and there is nothing like ideation.
When an entity reincarnates, the shell is invariably disintegrated.
the human monad.
A complete explanation of what is meant by the term "human monad" would include the whole range of occult science. It may be said, however, that the human monad is not identical with the seventh principle, the Atma or Logos; it is energy which works through the sixth principle. It is the one energy diffused from the Logos, the one life proceeding from the Logos as an active entity.
What is meant will be best explained in a simile.
Take the sun; according to the occult theory, that which emanates from it is uniformly spread throughout boundless space, the sun, is like a focus in which this matter is concentrated and which it is given off as visible light and heat. The one element is Parabrahm, and whenever the centre of activity called the Logos emerges from it as an active force, this force is the one element in its active condition, the one life, and it is the very same power which Hartmann describes as the one unconscious energy which may be called the will-power of nature, which produces consciousness and every other physical fact in the manifested universe.
We cannot say it comes into existence at any particular time, it seems latent in the one life throughout but at its
