Atman is no individual property of any man, but is the Divine
Essence which has no body, no form, which is imponderable,
invisible, and indivisible, that which does not _exist_ and
yet _is_, as the Buddhists say of Nirvana. It only
overshadows the mortal; that which enters into him and
pervades the whole body being only it's omni-present rays or
light, radiated through Buddhi, its vehicle and direct
emanation.[34]

Buddhi and Manas united, with this overshadowing of Atma, form the
Devachani; now, as we have seen in studying the Seven Principles,
Manas is dual during earth-life, and the Lower Manas is redrawn into
the Higher during the kamalokic interlude. By this reuniting of the
Ray and its Source, Manas re-becomes one, and carries the pure and
noble experiences of the earth-life into Devachan with it, thus
maintaining the past personality as the marked characteristic of the
Devachani, and it is in this prolongation of the "personal Ego", so
to speak, that the "illusion" of the Devachani consists. Were the
manasic entity free from all illusion, it would see all Egos as its
brother-Souls, and looking back over its past would recognise all the
varied relationships it had borne to others in many lives, as the
actor would remember the many parts he had played with other actors,
and would think of each brother actor as a man, and not in the parts
he had played as his father, his son, his judge, his murderer, his
master, his friend. The deeper human relationship would prevent the
brother actors from identifying each other with their parts, and so
the perfected spiritual Egos, recognising their deep unity and full
brotherhood, would no longer be deluded by the trappings of earthly
relationships. But the Devachani, at least in the lower stages, is
still within the personal boundaries of his past earth-life; he is
shut into the relationships of the one incarnation; his paradise is
peopled with those he "_loved best with an undying love, that holy
feeling that alone survives_," and thus the purified personal Ego is
the salient feature, as above said, in the Devachani. Again quoting
from the "Notes on Devachan":

"_Who goes to Devachan?" The personal Ego, of course; but
beatified, purified, holy. Every Ego--the combination of the
sixth and seventh principles[35]--which after the period of
unconscious gestation is reborn into the Devachan, is of
necessity as innocent and pure