On its return journey it gives all the above properties to their own source, thus lightening its load on its way toward its own element. The earthly body goes to earth, its water part to the world of water, its heat to the kingdom of heat, its air to the spheres of the air, its ether into the ethereal regions. Its impressions, thoughts, feelings, merits, qualities go as far as they can reach, and remain at their stations, wherever they are meant to be. Then it is the soul in its own essence that is left, merging into the ocean of Consciousness where nothing of its previous property remains.