| To conclude this section may we just add that | | | | to an unproductie life in the cosmic scheme. This |
| Newton's subjects emphasize strongly that God is | | | | is the complaint of all mystics concerning the sons |
| never once seen in the higher realms, although a | | | | of men. In the Old Testament we read,"Man lies |
| strong feeling of a Supreme Power is felt ruling | | | | down and never rises. They rouse not from their |
| the ongoings of devachan, or "heaven," and the | | | | sleep." (Job 14:12)From what we have said so far, |
| kinetic motion of magnetic streams of energy | | | | it may be surmised that there are various forms |
| flowing in the atmosphere and environment. This | | | | of death, and this is true. St. Paul hints of this |
| truth denounces certain religious beliefs that in | | | | when he declared, "I die daily" (I Cor 15:31). We |
| heaven one would finally see God face to | | | | tabulate the forms of death in the following:1) |
| face--for while on earth one may not see God's | | | | Death to higher realities and verities2) Death to a |
| face and live, one would surely behold God's | | | | higher awareness of divinity3) Death of one's |
| countenance in heaven. This principle has been | | | | slumber in matter4) Death of the false ego and |
| vmisunderstood and misinterpreted for the past | | | | its carnal, self-centered desires5) Death of sleep6) |
| two thousand years; it should actually be | | | | Death of the physical and etheric bodies7) Death |
| understood in a mystical rather than in a literal | | | | of the astral body8) Death of the mental |
| manner. It reminds us of Gautama Buddha's | | | | formWe will briefly describe each one: death to |
| silence when questioned about God--the implication | | | | higher realities and verities, and the death to |
| of his subtle answer revealing a profound truth to | | | | higher awareness of divinity are related. This is in |
| the initiated.Summarizing the scientific viewpoint on | | | | fact the involutionary path of the soul as it |
| death and the afterlife--based on years of careful | | | | descends for the first time in a new cycle of |
| psychical, parapsychological research--the following | | | | manifestation, or "manvantara." In involution the |
| conclusions have been reached:1) That humans | | | | soul loses a certain awareness only to regain it |
| are essentially immaterial in nature and that the | | | | with an enhancement during the Path of Return. |
| human essence, or self-awareness, survives | | | | Most souls prolong this period of ignorance and |
| physical death.2) That human soul-units exist at | | | | awareness of higher multidimensional truths by |
| differentiated levels of awareness in dimensions | | | | their own free-will.Death of one's slumber in |
| beyond the physical light-spectrum, beyond the | | | | matter is the awakening of the soul's aspiration to |
| reach of physical sensory perception.3) That | | | | spiritual possibilities--paradoxically, it could also |
| contact with departed souls is a possible feat | | | | mean being spiritually unconscious; this is followed |
| under certain conditions and circumstances.4) That | | | | by the death, or transcendence of the false ego |
| all human soul-units periodically re-embody or | | | | and its expressions in the movement within the |
| reincarnate to continue their evolution.5) That all | | | | evolutionary spiral. The death of sleep occurs |
| re-embody according to the law of causation, or | | | | every night as the soul takes flight to subtle |
| karma; or soul desire.DISCUSSIONSAs we have | | | | worlds. Death of the physical and etheric bodies |
| seen in the previous chapter, death according to | | | | occur when one leaves the present incarnation for |
| the various traditions, metaphysical experiences | | | | the astral world. This is followed by the deaths of |
| and modern scientific discoveries, does not | | | | the astral and mental forms as the soul rises |
| annihilate the human soul; and relationships formed | | | | higher and higher to rest for a period in the causal |
| on the physical plane do not cease at the | | | | body before preparing to reincarnate.Knowledge |
| termination of one's incarnation, as is normally | | | | of the nature of death and the other worlds are |
| believed; also, one's aspirations, goals and | | | | important subjects for every metaphysician. As |
| ambitions, though simply and seemingly cut-short | | | | said earlier in this paper, in the course of one's |
| prematurely at a stroke of the scythe by the | | | | metaphysical ministry, one would often encounter |
| grim reaper called death, is actually brought over | | | | individuals in bereavement requiring comfort and |
| to the Otherside for a further strategic | | | | solace. Equipped with a higher understanding of |
| development that would bloom in a later | | | | the nature of death and the purpose of life, |
| incarnation. We have also seen that the nature of | | | | metaphysicians are in a better position to enlighten |
| death and the afterlife can be known to those | | | | humanity, and to fulfill one of their functions as |
| who are willing to develop the necessary sensory | | | | ministers. To Catholics, administering the "Extreme |
| faculties of the astral form and its ability of | | | | Unction," or the last sacrament to the dying may |
| soul-flight. Additionally, we have dealt somewhat | | | | be considered vital. But to the metaphysician, |
| of the nature of heaven and hell, including the | | | | much more is required to guide the soul through |
| Judgment, from the various metaphysical, religious | | | | the dying process. With the appropriate |
| and scientific perspectives. We have described | | | | knowledge and occult ability, the metaphysician |
| and hinted of some of the ways and means of | | | | may assist souls in making a more meaningful |
| avoiding those undesired experiences, states and | | | | transition. Deathbed-rites of an occult formula and |
| conditions to be found in the bardo, and even in | | | | design, taking the bardo into consideration, are |
| the lower astral. Non-attachment to the physical | | | | needed by those engaged in the metaphysical |
| form and earthly life is helpful in the process of a | | | | field.The importance and purpose of life should be |
| peaceful and easy transition, and in a smooth | | | | appended and stressed in those rites as a lesson |
| journey through the bardo--this ought to be kept | | | | not only for the departed, but for those who are |
| in mind. And lastly, with the descriptions by | | | | left behind. An experience of a loss of a beloved |
| subjects of NDEs and communications from the | | | | one through the portals of death on the part of |
| beyond concerning the death process, we can be | | | | grieving and confused individuals should be looked |
| assured that dying does not have to entail any | | | | upon by metaphysicians as opportunities for the |
| mental, emotional or physical agony; on the | | | | sowing of the seeds of truth into their receptive |
| contrary, it may result in one of the most joyful | | | | consciousness. Metaphysicians as farmers in the |
| states that average souls may experience at its | | | | vineyard of truth should play their part perfectly. |
| present evolutionary level. It provides a certain | | | | By offering various truths concerning the nature |
| pre-taste of what the nirvanic state is like when | | | | of death-truths that are rational, logical, helpful and |
| once the soul is liberated and fully aware of its | | | | spiritually stimulating--we improve the whole image |
| divine unity with All That Is.Humans may fear | | | | of the metaphysical ministry in the minds of the |
| death, but "being dead" is actually the present | | | | public. The more metaphysicians have to offer to |
| state of awareness of most people. To be | | | | the public as to occult and esoteric knowledge and |
| unaware of one's higher microcosmic principles is | | | | as to the expressions of their high psychism, the |
| simply a consciousness of death. What separates | | | | more will the public's awareness be stirred and |
| the seen from the unseen is the level of one's | | | | lifted to a higher plane of consciousness. |
| waking consciousness, and the psychological | | | | Metaphysics as a synthesis of religious, spiritual, |
| impurities within one's subconscious mind. There | | | | philosophical, and scientific truths has the capacity |
| are several components in the microcosm making | | | | to offer what traditional forms of religion, science |
| up what we call the divine, human being. The | | | | and modern philosophies are incapable of |
| more components we are aware and conscious | | | | offering--that is, real help.SUMMARY AND |
| of, the more alive we become in the spiritual | | | | CONCLUSIONSIn the Introduction of this paper |
| sense. Non-experience of the higher principles and | | | | we presented the purpose and the need of why |
| realities do not mean that they do not exist, it is | | | | this subject had to be written and discussed--of |
| just that the faculty for higher perception has not | | | | the importance of its place in the metaphysical |
| yet been developed. Fear is what closes the veil | | | | ministry as well as its influence upon the individual |
| to spiritual knowing. When we fear, we | | | | and society as a whole. This purpose was again |
| circumscribe our consciousness. Fear of the | | | | stressed in the previous chapter. In order to |
| unknown, is the ignorance of the source of our | | | | organize our thoughts regarding the subject, we |
| fear. Identification with mortal principles simply | | | | formulated several themes that would be the |
| perpetuates (or perpetrates?) one's mortal | | | | basis for the structure of our paper. Our |
| existence as a normal human being--and it also | | | | fundamental themes consisted of the following:1) |
| maintains one's fears. We are meant to be | | | | The survival of personal consciousness2) The |
| perfect--as advised by the Piscean | | | | process of transition3) The nature of life after |
| Master--perfect in consciousness, in knowledge, | | | | so-called deathThe structure of our findings and |
| and in awareness. Attaining immortality, or | | | | of this paper, was based upon four |
| awareness of such, requires the shedding of | | | | perspectives:1) Religion/mythology2) The occult |
| mortal concepts, beliefs, attitudes and feelings. | | | | tradition3) Tibetan Buddhism4) |
| With such spiritual labour we gradually build the link | | | | ParapsychologyFrom each perspective, we initially |
| between the lower and higher principles and | | | | dealt with the basic themes from a certain point |
| ensure the continuity of consciousness, and the | | | | of view, but ended up with the same findings, the |
| awareness of the illusory nature of death. With | | | | same conclusions, and the same cosmic truths; |
| each extermination of a false concept we | | | | nevertheless, among the above perspectives, |
| become more alive in a spiritual sense. Death, "the | | | | there is still much to be said about religion as a |
| last enemy," as declared in scriptures, though | | | | whole that has somewhat misrepresented the |
| inevitable, will be swallowed up in victory when | | | | spiritual truths as taught by their founders. We |
| once its maya-nature is understood and the | | | | are certain, though, that every metaphysician |
| continuity of consciousness acquired. Death will | | | | would research into this subject sooner or later as |
| then lose its sting. Death ends when once the | | | | it is mentally and spiritually rewarding. In years to |
| multidimensionality of one's being is realized, and | | | | come "death" will be a time of celebration and not |
| when once one's liberation from the wheel of | | | | a time of mourning as it is now.Finally, in the fifth |
| reincarnation is attained. What we call death is an | | | | chapter, we discussed on humanity's basic |
| illusion. This is echoed in the words of the Taoist | | | | psychological problem--that of senseless fear. We |
| poet, Chuang Tzu:"Birth is not a beginning, death is | | | | have seen how this fear robs man of his or her |
| not an end."Fear simply robs individuals of their | | | | true life as a divine son or daughter of God living |
| physical, emotional, mental and spiritual | | | | an abundant life in the here and now. We have |
| energies--energies which could be used for more | | | | also briefly discussed how the elimination of the |
| constructive and creative purposes. When | | | | fear of death would transform the individual and |
| enlightened of the nature of death, like Socrates, | | | | society as a whole.To sublimate and transcend |
| we will not fear it; and this knowledge, | | | | this fear condition that overwhelms society we |
| understanding, and enlightenment would greatly | | | | suggest that additional research be conducted into |
| help humanity to live an abundant life, as promised | | | | along the lines of soul-investigation, and into the |
| by Master Jesus. Like a chain effect, the | | | | many other principles of the bardo process not |
| awareness of the non-existence of death and the | | | | discussed or discovered by Tibetan Lamas. Ways |
| truth of man's purpose for being would improve | | | | of researching into this should be conducted in a |
| the quality, nature, and service of every | | | | scientific and intuitive manner, though this may |
| governmental department and institution, affecting | | | | not always be through conventional methods. |
| society's consciousness, development and welfare. | | | | Researchers should not fear probing into the |
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