As to the personal soul—by which we mean the spark of consciousness that preserves in the spiritual Ego the idea of the personal "I" of the last incarnation—this lasts, as a separate distinct recollection, only throughout the devachanic period[…]
1895, Charles Webster Leadbeater, The Astral Plane: Its Scenery, Inhabitants and Phenomena, London: Theosophical Publishing Society, page 3:
The names usually given to these planes, taking them in order of materiality, rising from the denser to the finer, are the physical, the astral, the devachanic, the sushtupic, and the nirvânic.
1900-14, Nurho de Manhar, Zohar: Bereshith to Lekh Lekha[1]:
The Devachanic or Heavenly Spheres
1908 September 12, Rudolf Steiner, “Lecture 10: Leipzig, September 12, 1908”, in Egyptian Myths and Mysteries: Twelve Lectures, Leipzig, September 2-14, 1908, SteinerBooks, published 1971, →ISBN, page 136:
The initiates of that time could withdraw into lofty worlds, into the devachanic worlds, and they communicated their experiences to the others.
1909, Charles Webster Leadbeater, The Devachanic Plane: or, the Heaven World: Its Characteristics and Inhabitants, Theosophical Publishing House, page 16:
Casting about for an explanation of this phenomena, he begins to realized that all this magnificence is not a mere idle or fortuitous display- a kind of devachanic aurora borealis[…]
