--Ed. Theos.
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Its tendencies of action will be similar to those of the individual's
mind when he was living. This entity maintains its existence so long as
the impressions on the power associated with the fifth principle remain
intact. In course of time they are effaced, and the power in question
is then mixed up in the current of its corresponding power in the
MACROCOSM, as the river loses itself in the sea. Entities like these
may afford signs of there having been considerable intellectual power in
the individuals to which they belonged; because very high intellectual
power may co-exist with utter absence of spiritual consciousness. But
from this circumstance it cannot be argued that either the spirits or
the spiritual Egos of deceased individuals appear in seance-rooms.
There are some people in India who have thoroughly studied the nature of
such entities (called Pisacham). I do not know much about them
experimentally, as I have never meddled with this disgusting,
profitless, and dangerous branch of investigation.
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