A Theosophical definition of Kama-Rupa :

Kama-Rupa

(Sanskrit) A compound word signifying "desire body." It is that part of man's inner constitution in which dwell or inhere the various desires, affections, hates, loves  - in short, the various mental and psychical energies.

After death it becomes the vehicle in the astral worlds of the higher principles of the man that was. But these higher principles are nevertheless scarcely conscious of the fact, because the rupture of the golden cord of life at the moment of the physical death plunges the cognizing  personal entity into a merciful stupor of unconsciousness, in which stupor it remains a longer or shorter period depending upon its qualities of spirituality or materiality. The more spiritual the man was the longer the period of merciful unconsciousness lasts, and vice versa.

After death, as has been frequently stated elsewhere, there occurs what is called the second death, which is the separation of the immortal part of the second or intermediate duad from the lower portions of this duad, which lower portions remain as the kama-rupa in the etheric or higher astral spheres which are intermediate between the devachanic and the earthly spheres. In time this kama-rupa gradually fades out in its turn, its life-atoms at such dissolution passing on to their various and unceasing peregrinations.

It is this kama-rupa which legend and story in the various ancient world religions or philosophies speak of as the shade, and which it has been customary in the Occident to call the spook or ghost. It is, in short, all the mortal elements of the human soul that was. The kama-rupa is an exact astral duplicate, in appearance and mannerism, of the man who died; it is his eidolon or "image." (See also Second Death)

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 Kama-dhenu:

the heavenly cow

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Animal Soul. See KAMA-MANAS, KAMA-RUPA, PRINCIPLES

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Psychomental Referring to the human intermediate nature, manas and kama.

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Emotion(s). See KAMA; SENSES

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Kamic (from Sanskrit kama desire)

An anglicized form of kamika, meaning desirous, pertaining to desire.

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Artha:

Artha: Welfare, prosperity; one of the four goals of human life together with Dharma, Kama, Moksha (Righteousness, Endeavour and Liberation) (RRV-5), (LKV). Welfare, prosperity; one of the Four Goals of Human Life together with Dharma, Kama, Moksha (Righteousness, Endeavour and Liberation (RRV-5), (LKV).

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Higher Manas The aspect of the dual manas or human mental principle, which is attracted to buddhi or the spiritual principle, and which therefore is conditionally immortal. The lower manas is attracted to the kama or desire principle and dissolves after death as part of the kama-rupa.

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Higher Manas The aspect of the dual manas or human mental principle, which is attracted to buddhi or the spiritual principle, and which therefore is conditionally immortal. The lower manas is attracted to the kama or desire principle and dissolves after death as part of the kama-rupa.

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Ananga (Sanskrit). The "Bodiless". An epithet of Kama, god of love.

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Makara Ketu (Sanskrit). A name of Kama, the Hindu god of love and desire.

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Thumos (Greek) Similar to soul, but generally referring to the passional or emotional nature, and answering to kama-manas.

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She'ol-'ob (Hebrew) [from She'ol the Hebrew Hades + 'ob a necromancer]

One who raises the phantoms or kama-rupic shades of the dead from Sheol, a necromancer; intercourse or trafficking with the various kinds of inhabitants of the lower realms of the astral light or kama-loka.

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Simulacra [plural of Latin simulacrum image, likeness, phantom]

The kama-rupic images left in the astral light by the reincarnating ego after death, which resemble the former living physical body in appearance but in fact are disintegrating shells only -- kama-rupas which all too often are the "spirits" of the departed of the seance room.

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Pothos (Greek) Desire; the divine love felt by spirit for its own principles (Chaos), thus the root of eros and cupido. Just as is the case with the various meanings given to the Sanskrit kama, so with pothos. Abstract kama is identic with abstract pothos, pothos itself; and as from abstract kama, spiritual divine love, springs forth the lower kama of the manifested worlds, just so from pothos mystically spring forth first eros, cosmic attraction on all planes, and then on a still lower and more material series of planes was born cupido, or attraction and yearning.

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P'o (Chinese) In the I Ching "the full manifestation of the kwei" -- the kama-manas or animal soul.

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Hridaya-Granthi:

Hridaya-Granthi: the knot of the heart, viz.,  Avidya, Kama and Karma.

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moksha:

ultimate spiritual liberation from material bondage. One of the 4 duties of a human. The others are dharma, artha and kama.

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Yuh-kai (Tibetan) Also chikhai. Equivalent to the Sanskrit kama-loka; although a state or condition of entities, it is also a locality for it is "the abode of Elementaries" (ML 105).

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Phren (Ancient Greek). A Pythagorean term denoting what we call the Kama-Manas still overshadowed by the Buddhi-Manas.

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Klesha (Sanskrit). Love of life, but literally "pain and misery". Cleaving to existence, and almost the same as Kama.

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Spook [cf German spuk; Dutch spook etc.]

A ghost, apparition, or hobgoblin, in theosophical writing applied to elementals elementaries, kama-rupic shells, and astral images.

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