The Devachanic Plane

The Devachanic Plane is a metaphysical essay by Charles Webster Leadbeater. It presents us with the characteristics and inhabitants of the heaven world and serves as a manual for those interested in theosophy.

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Excerpt from The Devachanic Plane: Its Characteristics and Inhabitants Few words are needed in sending this little book out into the world. It is the sixth of a series of Manuals designed to meet the public demand for a simple exposition of Theosophical teachings. Some have complained that our literature is at once too abstruse, too technical, and too expensive for the ordinary reader, and it is our hope that the present series may succeed in supplying what is a very real want. Theosophy is not only for the learned; it is for all. Perhaps among those who in these little books catch their fast glimpse of its teachings, there may be a few who will be led by them to penetrate move deeply into its philosophy, its science and its religion, facing its abstruser problems with the student's zeal and the neophyte's ardour. But these Manuals are not written for the eager student, whom no initial difficulties can daunt; they are written for the busy men and women of the work-a-day world, and seek to make plain some of the great truths that render life easier to bear and death easier to face. Written by servants of the Masters who are the Elder Brothers of our race, they can have no other object than to serve our fellow-men. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Leadbeaters treatment of Devachan is an expansive look at an interesting mystic concept taken from Theosophy and interpreted with slight variance in other systems. The basic premise is that of a temporary situation between physical incarnations, which is vaguely similar to the concept of a Christian heaven although heavily subjugated to a many-layered sort of ascension away from the physical and mortal and into a sort of merging with spiritual forces adopted from Eastern systems such as Buddhism and Hinduism. The list of entities in the various rupa and arupa regions is quite elaborate. In some texts- although not this one- Devachan is also described as quasi-purgatorial.