Invisible Helpers

In this instance, there seems no reason to doubt that the mother herself was still keeping a loving watch over her children from the astral plane The emotional or psychic level of existence, believed by Theosophists to be immediately "above" the physical plane., and that (as has happened in some other cases) her intense desire to warn them of the danger into which they were so heedlessly rushing gave her the power to make herself visible and audible to them for the moment—or perhaps merely to impress their minds with the idea that they saw and heard her. It is possible, of course, that the helper may have been someone else who took the familiar form of the mother in order not to alarm the children; but the simplest hypothesis is to attribute the intervention to the action of the ever-wakeful mother-love itself, undimmed by the passage through the gates of death.

This mother-love, being one of the holiest and most unselfish of human feelings, is also one of the most persistent on higher planes. Not only does the mother who finds herself upon the lower levels of the astral plane, and consequently still within touch of the earth, maintain her interest in and her care for her children as long as she is able to see them, but even after her entry into the heaven-world The "Devachan" or higher spiritual state of rest and bliss., these little ones are still the most prominent objects in her thought. The wealth of love that she lavishes upon the