To this question, William Judge
answered the following:
« As I understand our
philosophy, victims of accidental death and suicides do remain out of Devachan
until the time they would have died naturally shall have come. Kama-Loka, where
these and all others go, has its grades in the same way as human living states.
The first statements of these
doctrines were naturally general, but elaborations have also appeared in which
specific points have been dealt with. Not all suicides are alike. Certainly a
thoroughly insane person who kills himself is not like one who, while sane and
cowardly, does the deed, nor is this last the same as he who from a foolish
philosophy or the want of it cuts off his life.
They all differ one from another,
and hence their stay in Kama-Loka will vary. But in those general cases where
the person stays in Kama-Loka, the personality, consisting of astral body with
the passions and desires, can and does communicate with the living, whether a
medium or not. This is exactly the danger of mediumship, of suicide, and of
legal murder or execution of criminals.
The last is a very great danger —
one of the unseen but powerful curses of the times. An executed criminal’s
death is the same as that of one who is accidentally killed in effect, only
that it is deliberately done, and in most cases the elements of hate, revenge,
and anger in the criminal are added.
His fierce and angry personality
— compound of astral body and Kama — is thrust suddenly out of life; his higher
principles wait in upper Kama-Loka in a benumbed or torpid state; but his personal
life flits about the abodes of men, attempting to get revenge or to do other
wicked things, and every day injects into the sensitive human natures it meets
all its mass of vile and unappeasable thoughts.
It thus creates picture after
picture of murder and hate. Mediums are not the only ones affected by these
astral personages; indeed, they are often too closely associated with other
sorts of shells, and the personality of the criminal has definite attractions towards
other persons.
Is it any wonder, then, that the
Theosophist who has worked out our doctrines of man’s nature to their proper
conclusions should deplore the custom of executing criminals?
He knows that one legal execution
may and nearly always does lead to many another sudden murder or suicide.
And as the astral personalities
of suicides and executed criminals are in closer touch with us than any other
sort of spook, it follows that they also are more likely to come first to any Spiritualistic
séance. All those who respect the suggestions of H.P. Blavasky will be
interested to know that the above was her own view, often given to me, and
further certified as reasonable by Adepts who can see the facts behind the
scenes. »
(Echoes of the Orient II, p.303)
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