It then
practically ceases to exist.
These entities, as it were, remain his, or in his possession, when they
are stamped with the stamp of recognition. When such is not the case,
the whole of his individuality is centred in his fifth principle. And
after death this fifth principle is the only representative of the
individual in question.
By itself it cannot evolve for itself a new set of objective
experiences, or, to say the same thing in other words, it has no
punarjanmam. It is such an entity that can appear in seance-rooms; but
it is absurd to call it a disembodied spirit.* It is merely a power or
force retaining the impressions of the thoughts or ideas of the
individual into whose composition it originally entered. It sometimes
summons to its aid the Kamarupa power, and creates for itself some
particular ethereal form (not necessarily human).
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* It is especially on this point that the Aryan and Arahat doctrines
quite agree. The teaching and argument that follow are in every respect
those of the Buddhist Himalayan Brotherhood.
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