The Afterlife
When the end of life comes, and a man goes out of it like a candle in the wind, what then happens depends upon his character, his prevailing consciousness, his preparedness, and his last thoughts.
6.9.1.83 2017-08-05
With death, consciousness takes on a new condition but does not pass into mere emptiness, is not crumbled away with the fleshly brain into dust. No! It survives because it is the real being of a man.
6.9.1.572013-08-08
Dying into annihilation is one thing but dying into another form of consciousness is quite different. It is the latter which happens at the passing away of the life-force from the body.
6.9.1.212011-07-23
We have not come from oblivion. All our past is present in our characters, capacities, and tendencies; therefore we shall not go into oblivion. There is no death–only a change of state.
16.26.4.2472011-11-25
… It is not annihilation that we ought to fear, for that will not happen, but rather the evil in our own self, and the pain that follows in the train of that evil as a shadow follows a man in the sunlight.
6.9.1.58, Excerpt2011-06-22
Death is the great revealer. In that vivid but dreamlike experience which follows it, each man is shown what he has really done with his earth-life, what he should have done with it, and what he failed to do with it.
6.9.1.922018-05-20
If you want to know where you will go after you are dead, I shall tell you for I have been there. You go nowhere, no place. As awareness of this earth and the earthly body fade away, soon after dying, you will simply enter the condition of awareness to which your character entitles you.
1.9.0.112019-06-06
The entity which lives in the spirit world after death is the same ego that dwelt on earth, emanating from and sustained by the same Overself. In this relationship, they are still distinct and separate entities, even though as intimately connected as parent and offspring.
6.8.1.2362012-04-30
Our habitual trend of thinking on earth will necessarily be the habitual trend of thinking with which we shall start spirit-life although we shall not end that life with it.
1.9.0.102019-07-13
The student has learned that the death of the body is extrinsic to the consciousness, which lives on unchanged in itself. But when death claims the body of someone he loves, his faith will be put to test. At such a time, he must remember that the loved one has actually evolved to a more highly developed phase of life.
6.9.1.1332015-12-31
A life that is not directed towards this higher goal, a mind that is entirely uninterested in becoming a participant in the Overself consciousness–these failures will silently censure a man both during his bodily tenancy and his post-mortem existence.
6.9.3.602013-10-12
For those who have made sufficient progress with the Quest, death is not a frightening experience. Once the exit from the body has been made, the rest is pleasant and peaceful.
1.9.0.192018-08-15
With the understanding of life in the body comes the knowledge of what life is without the body, that is, death. Both are existences in Mind, which is their reality.
6.9.1.642014-05-16
There are the visible living people and the invisible living ones. None are ever lost to existence or destroyed in consciousness, but only their bodies.
6.9.1.1762013-11-02
The personal man will survive death but he will not be immortal. The I which outlives the fleshly body will itself one day be outlived by the deeper I which man has yet to find.
6.9.1.1832016-05-29
We leave the body with the first death and the ego with the second death. But this is not the end. In the Overself we find our final being.
6.9.1.822017-08-16
Life between incarnations consists of a dream-like state followed by a period resembling deep sleep. There is, however, no remembrance of one’s former birth upon emerging from this state.
6.9.1.612016-11-23
Death is the entrance to a new kind of being, a renewed form of life, another period in which old experience is assimilated and the next phase (reincarnation) prepared for.
1.9.0.152018-03-07
… The personal self did not emerge from nothing and therefore cannot go back into nothing when it dies; it dies into this living Universal Mind, is absorbed by it.
6.8.1.114, Excerpt2016-03-15
When the decreed time comes the body is discarded but the mind remains. It passes through varied experiences and finally sleeps them off. After a while it awakes deeply refreshed. Then the old propensities slowly revive and it returns to this world, putting on a new body in new surroundings.
6.9.1.512011-05-29
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