{"id":39139,"date":"2023-02-20T15:15:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T15:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/?page_id=39139"},"modified":"2023-03-07T16:55:11","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T16:55:11","slug":"death","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/teacher-courses\/tertiary-drama\/spiritual\/death\/","title":{"rendered":"Death"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Dear Unknown Friend,

In Genesis God says, \u201cYou shall not eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, for on the day when you eat from it you will die\u201d, and the serpent says, \u201cYou will not die\u201d. Here God is categorical; the serpent is just as much so.
Is it simply that the serpent understands by \u201cdeath\u201d what God understands by \u201clife\u201d and that he understands by \u201clife\u201d what God understands by \u201cdeath\u201d?<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The answer to this question is the Arcanum of the thirteenth Card of the Tarot, \u201cDeath\u201d, which represents a skeleton who reaps only what pushes up from the black soil and rises above it\u2014hands, heads, etc.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tForgetting, sleep and death are three manifestations of the same thing \u2014 namely the \u201cthing\u201d which effects disappearance. It is said that sleep is the younger brother of death. It is necessary to add: forgetting is the brother of sleep.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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During the sixteen or eighteen hours that we are in the waking state there are layers of our psychic being which are asleep. During the waking state one is \u201casleep\u201d to many things\u2014facts, people, ideas, God…<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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And if the Buddha is considered\u2014and venerated\u2014as \u201cfully awake\u201d to the facts of human life such as sickness, old age and death, it is because those who are not Buddhas know that they are asleep with regard to these facts\u2014 not intellectually, but psychically and in their will.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBeyond clinical death there is a psychic death and a moral death. There are things which are missing from our psychic and moral being. The absence of faith, hope and love cannot be remedied either by arguments or by exhortations or even by a living example.

\n\nAn act of divine magic\u2014or grace\u2014is necessary to accomplish the infusion of life into that which is dead. And if Christ is worshipped as the Risen One, it is because those who bear death within them know that it is only divine magic which can raise what is dead within them and that the risen Christ is the guarantor of this.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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How and why do we remember the past, how and why do we wake in the morning, and how and why do we live several decades? Let us meditate on this without the intermediary of what may be borrowed from others. In meditation\u2014and these Letters are only meditations\u2014let us ask ourselves: \u201cWhat do I myself know?\u201d, and not the question: \u201cWhat is generally known?\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Vertical memory:
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There are four types of memory: mechanical or automatic memory, logical memory, moral memory and vertical or revelatory memory.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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  1. Mechanical or automatic<\/strong> in which the remembrance simply happens<\/em>.\u00a0 This sort of memory supplies me, on the occasion of each impression that I receive, with a host of images of the past from which I can choose. Thus when I see a pipe, I can choose between images of the past which present themselves to my mind, e.g. \u201can old sea-dog whom I saw at B. in 19…\u201d; or \u201ca book on Red Indians where it was a matter of the peace-pipe ritual\u201d,\u00a0 etc.<\/li>
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  2. Logical memory<\/strong> is\u00a0 more active than in the case of automatic memory. Here I have to think in order to remember things. Thus, for example, if I want to remember the Hindu Trinity, amongst whom I have forgotten one of the three terms, I ask myself: If there is a Creator and a Destroyer, Brahma and Shiva, which third principle ought to be found between the Creator and the Destroyer? I concentrate on the empty place between the two and I make an effort to fill it logically. \u201cAh, it is the Conserver principle\u2014this is Vishnu\u2014of course!\u201d<\/li>
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  3. Moral memory<\/strong> is an authentic magical act. Here love is at work when it recalls things from the past. Here it is admiration, respect, friendship, gratitude, affection and a thousand other things which have deeply moved you People who\u00a0 are able to give everything a moral worth and to see a moral sense in everything will not forget anything; they will have a normal, if not excellent, memory to a very advanced age.<\/li>
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  4. Vertical or revelatory memory. <\/strong>It is the link between the \u201chigher eye\u201d and the \u201clower eye\u201d, which renders us authentically religious and wise, and immune to the assaults of scepticism, materialism and determinism. It is this also which is the source of certainty not only of God and the spiritual world with its hierarchical entities but also of the immortality of our being.\n

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    We must seek for the key to memory at its highest development \u2014 \u201cmoral memory\u201d and \u201cvertical memory\u201d. What is the force at work in the subjective magical operation of remembering, such as it is revealed in \u201cvertical memory\u201d and in \u201cmoral memory\u201d? The following reveals it to its highest conceivable degree:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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    Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus…when Jesus came<\/em>, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days…Jesus wept… Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb; it was a cave, and a stone lay upon it. Jesus said: Take away the stone<\/em>… So they took away the stone…Jesus cried with a loud voice: Lazarus, come out. The dead man came out<\/em>, his hands and feet bound with bandages, and his face wrapped with a cloth.
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    Firstly, coming<\/em> is the first effort in the whole operation of recall. Then, the taking away of the stone<\/em> is the effort which vanquishes doubt, depression, fatigue and, lastly, despair, which bar the way to the recalled, like the stone placed before the tomb. Lastly: \u201cTo cry with a loud voice<\/em>\u201d is the culminating\u2014and the supreme\u2014effort of the operation of recall through the force of love, as was the case with Lazarus. Work and suffering are the things which render our voices audible to the spiritual world. These are the factors which create \u201cvibrations\u201d sufficiently \u201cloud\u201d in the spiritual world in order to render our voices audible.<\/p>

    This is why the rosary-prayer repeats the Ave Maria two hundred\u00a0 times and the Pater Noster twenty times. The effort of the rosary-prayer founded on suffering makes it a powerful means in sacred magic.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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    Is Recall therefore a Miracle?<\/a><\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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    All that is not mechanical\u2014physical, psychic and intellectual\u2014is miraculous. We have no other choice than between the machine and slavery, on the one hand, and the miracle and freedom, on the other.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    The miracle<\/em> of St. Francis is not only the healing of a leper but also the love of St. Francis for \u201cLady Poverty\u201d. Did not the miracles of Jesus Christ, after the resurrection of Lazarus, culminate in the cross on Calvary where, in the full agony of torture, he said: \u201cFather, forgive them, for they know not what they do\u201d (Luke xxiii, 34)?<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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    All that one does<\/em> is miraculous; all intellectual, psychic and physical functioning<\/em> according to \u201cnature\u201d, i.e. according to human automatism, is mechanical. The Sermon on the Mount<\/em> is the teaching of doing<\/em> and of the triumph over functioning.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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    Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you…and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. (Luke vi, 27-28; Matthew v, 44-45)<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

    \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTo bless those who curse you is a miracle from the point of view of the \u201cnormal and natural\u201d functioning of the reactions of the human machine.

    The world is due to a miracle, i.e. that it was made by the creative Word, and not that it was due to any functioning, to any automatic\u2014 even highly intellectual\u2014process:\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    All things were made through the Word, and nothing that was made was made without him. (John i, 3)<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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    One can will forgetting<\/em> of many things which do not relate to the subject of concentration or contemplation. One knows that when one prays the Pater Noster<\/em> one forgets not only one\u2019s daily affairs but also all other prayers for the time that one prays the Pater Noster<\/em>.<\/p>

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    \u00a0The three stages on the way towards the soul\u2019s union with God\u2014those of purification, illumination and union\u2014are simply the history of a single growing effort of concentration of the entire soul upon God. St. John of the Cross says of the effect of the experience of actual union of the soul\u2019s powers with God:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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    …all the powers of the soul together, because of the union in the inner cellar, drink of the Beloved… This draught of God\u2019s most deep wisdom makes the soul forget all the things of this world, and consider all its previous knowledge, and the knowledge of the whole world besides, as pure ignorance in comparison with this knowledge. (St. John of the Cross, A Spiritual Canticle<\/em> )<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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    I may add that the masters of Raja-yoga, Bhakti-yoga and Jnana-yoga teach the practice of complete forgetting of the phenomenal world with a view to attaining perfect contemplation. The teaching of forgetting is found also in the mystical Cabbala and in Mohammedan mysticism, e.g. that of Sufism.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

    \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t.The three stages of the way leading to the soul\u2019s union with God\u2014purification, illumination and union\u2014are repeated after death: purgatory is purification (catharsis), which precedes illumination or heaven, and heaven is the state of the soul when it arrives at union with God,\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    Saints, Angels and Birth<\/a><\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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    Saints do not seek union<\/em> with God; they are<\/em> united with God. This is why they act \u2014 their faces being turned towards the earth and not towards God \u2014 in the name of God on earth. They act, being united with God, in the guise of organs of his will.
    It is the same with Angels, for example. Guardian Angels could never be guardians of human beings if their looks were turned towards God<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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    The three stages of the way leading to the soul\u2019s union with God\u2014purification, illumination and union\u2014are repeated after death: purgatory is purification (catharsis), which precedes illumination or heaven, and heaven is the state of the soul when it arrives at union with God,<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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    \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBirth can be either \u201choly\u201d or \u201cnatural\u201d, i.e. it can either be an act of obedience to divine will or rather it can be effected as a consequence of a \u201ccall from the earth\u201d. A soul can be sent to<\/em> the earth or it can be attracted by<\/em> the earth. \u201cHoly birth\u201d is the remembrance of the divine, which is the force which accomplishes incarnation. It is not thanks to forgetting of the divine that the soul is then incarnated, but rather thanks to its remembering. It is in the state of \u201chabitual union\u201d with God that the soul is incarnated. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    One could then speak of a \u201cmission\u201d, or an \u201celection\u201d…and rightly, because such a mission is the only one which really exists. For the true mission is not what the human being proposes to do on the earth according to his tastes, his interests and even his ideals, but rather what God wants him to do. Arbitrary \u201cmissions\u201d, although due to the best intentions in the world, have only contributed confusion to human history.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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    The Gospel maxim is \u201cLet what you say be simply \u2018Yes\u2019 or \u2018No\u2019; anything more than this comes from evil\u201d (Matthew v, 37). Here we return to the question that we posed at the beginning of this Letter, namely: What is the \u201csurplus\u201d that the serpent adds to the \u201cyes\u201d and \u201cno\u201d understood as life<\/em> and death<\/em>? The serpent promises a crystallisation,<\/em>\u00a0that the human being will resist death and become \u201cdeath-proof\u201d, immune to death. This crystallisation<\/em> is effected through friction, i.e. by the electrical energy which is produced by the struggle between \u201cyes\u201d and \u201cno\u201d in man.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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    There are schools \u2014 occult or other \u2014 which teach and practise crystallisation<\/em> and there are other schools which teach and practise radiation<\/em>, i.e. the complete de- crystallisation<\/em> of the human being and his transformation into a \u201csun\u201d, into a centre of radiation<\/em>. \u201cThen the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father\u201d (Matthew xiii, 43)\u2014<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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    The \u201cschools of crystallisation\u201d are quite numerous and widespread. I have in mind the school of G. I. Gurdjieff, and I am going to cite the work In Search of the Miraculous<\/em> by P. D. Ouspensky.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

    \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSomeone asked about the possibility of reincarnation, and whether it is possible to believe in cases of communication with the dead. In order to be able to speak of any kind of future life there must be a certain crystallisation, a certain fusion of man\u2019s inner qualities. What people call \u2018reincarnation\u2019 may be possible after death, and, in other cases, what people call\n\u201cexistence on the other side\u2019. In both cases it is the continuation of life in the \u2018astral body\u2019. an \u2018astral body\u2019. This is quite wrong. The \u2018astral body\u2019 is obtained by means of fusion, by means of terribly hard inner work and struggle. Man is not born with it.

    Take for example a brigand, a really good, genuine brigand. I knew such brigands in the Caucasus. He will stand with a rifle behind a stone by the roadside for eight hours without stirring. Could you do this? All the time, mind you, a struggle is going on in him. He is thirsty and hot, and flies are biting him; but he stands still. Another is a monk; he is afraid of the devil; all night long he beats his head on the floor and prays. Thus crystallisation is achieved…Such people can become immortal.\u201d\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    According to Gurdjieff, immortality is neither a birthright of the human soul nor a gift of divine grace \u2014it is made by\u00a0 crystallisation of a new body within the physical body which can resist death and survive the destruction of the physical body.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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    \u00a0That is to say, the soul created by God does not exist; it must be created by the human being from within the\u00a0 physical body. The robber and the monk, and also the occultist, can become immortal through the energy that they produce by their efforts.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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    Ouspensky writes of a\u00a0 construction, from within the physical body, of a tower\u00a0 rising from mortality to\u00a0 immortality, from earth to heaven. Now, the Bible knows of the method of building \u201ca tower with its top in the heavens\u201d and of making \u201ca name for ourselves lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth\u201d (Genesis xi, 4). It is the construction of the Tower of Babel<\/em>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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    \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAre we talking here of ghosts<\/em>? This is exactly what Gurdjieff teaches about psychic crystallisation effected from within the physical body, and which can resist the death. This is the \u201castral body\u201d of which Gurdjieff said that, \u201cif it is formed it may continue to live after the death of the physical body…if it is not re-born, then, in the course of time, it also dies; it is not immortal but it can live long after the death of the physical body\u201d.

    A ghost is\u00a0 a consequence of\u00a0 crystallisation of a desire, a passion, or a purpose of great intensity, which produces a complex of energy in the human being.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
    \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe \u201cself\u201d of such an occultist would be allied to this double, the bearer of his memory and intellect, and could incarnate himself anew \u2014 avoiding purgatory and the union which is the lot of the human soul after death..\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    Gurdjieff is simply a representative of the cause of materialistic science. He was, moreover, a good-natured man, endowed with an exquisite sense of humour, a good son, a good friend, and very intelligent with respect to common sense. It would be wrong to see in him a \u201cprophet of darkness\u201d or an instrument of a special \u201cSatanic mission\u201d. No, he was simply a good representative of the \u201cwisdom of this world\u201d. He was not any more a \u201cSatanist\u201d than the celebrated Russian physiologist Pavlov<\/a> or any other representative of materialistic science.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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    You see now, dear Unknown Friend, why the Church was hostile to the doctrine of reincarnation, although the fact of repeated incarnations was known to a large number of people faithful to the Church with authentic spiritual experience.


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    The deeper reason is the danger of reincarnation by way of the ghost, where one avoids the path of purification (in purgatory<\/strong>), illumination and celestial union.


    For humanity could succumb to the temptation of preparing for a future terrestrial life, instead of preparing for purgatory and heaven, during earthly life. One ought during earthly life to prepare for this meeting with a fully awakened consciousness, which is purgatory, and for the experience of the presence of the Eternal, which is heaven<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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    I may add that in the last analysis it is a matter not only of the moral\n\ndanger of evading purgatory and the experience of Eternity, but also of replacing one immortality by another, namely that of God by that of the serpent. For there are two deaths and two immortalities\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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    It is not phantoms and ghosts which are the source of certainty of survival or immortality. The source of this certainty is found elsewhere. Where, then?…in the experience of the kernel of the human being and his relationship with the breath, light and warmth of God.

    Imagine the reaction of a St. John of the Cross or a St. Teresa of Avila to a discourse, armed with all the arguments of modern science, addressed to them so as to prove to them that the soul is only a mirage produced by chemistry and electricity! I think that they would have sent the author of such remarks either to a psychiatrist or to an exorcist!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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    I certainly know the logical, philosophical and psychological criticism of the Cartesian argument, cogito ergo sum<\/em>\u00a0( I think therefore I am) and I accept it without reserve\u00a0in foro scientiae<\/em>\u00a0(before the court of science), but it was not the force of this argument in the tribunal of science which gave Ren\u00e9 Descartes certainty of his transcendent Self.

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    The kernel of his being, but rather the experience in the tribunal of consciousness (in foro conscientiae<\/em>) where, whilst thinking in the admirable way which was characteristic of him, he went out of discursive thought and found himself as the\u00a0thinker<\/em>\u00a0of thoughts! It was therefore not a logical argument but a real and intimate experience of thought – in the process of thinking – which gave Descartes complete certainty of the reality of the “I am” which manifests itself in the “I think”<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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    The German philosopher Immanuel Kant (a soul of childlike purity, endowed with a remarkable honesty and diligence) made Descartes\u2019 spontaneous experience a new method of inner effort aspiring to knowledge, namely the transcendental method<\/em>.

    This method amounts to the effort to transcend the thinking in which the thinker is ordinarily immersed, by going out from it and elevating himself above it, in order to observe<\/em> thought. His works Critique of Pure Reason<\/em> and Critique of Judgement<\/em> are the fruits of the application of this method, which judges things belonging to the metaphysical domain \u2014 for example, God, the immortality of the soul, and moral freedom.\u00a0 He wrote:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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    “I would have to alter the foundation of my very being, or to annihilate myself, if I were to say that God does not exist, that I am not free, and that I am not immortal. The very structure of my being is such that it postulates categorically the existence of God<\/em> or infinite perfectibility, freedom or morality as such, and the immortality of the soul<\/em> or the possibility of infinite perfectioning.”<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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    From this comes their certainty of \u201cI am\u201d (Descartes) and \u201cI am free, I am immortal (and) I am in the presence of God\u201d (Kant).\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    You see therefore, dear Unknown Friend, that the great thinkers of the West \u2014 just as the Hindu yogis \u2014 have arrived at the experience of the kernel of the human being, the transcendent Self, the experience of which gave them certainty of immortality.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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    \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThese are the three stages of the way of the human soul after death\u2014through purgatory to heaven, and from heaven to God. Saint John of the Cross shows that it is authentic faith which is revealed, acts, and increases in purification; that it is hope which is simultaneously both the agent and the fruit of illumination; and that, lastly, it is charity which achieves union of the soul with God.

    This is the eternal way, and no one can invent or find another.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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    \nWe do not worship God because he is able to do more than us, or because he knows more than us, but rather because he has more faith, more hope and more love than us.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    To return to the Card of the thirteenth Major Arcanum of the Tarot. Here we see that Death reaps hands, feet, and lastly heads, which appear above the level of the black soil. He does not reap growing grass or whole human figures. He acts as a surgeon rather than as an exterminator. He sees that the vital world is not invaded by \u201cemissaries\u201d from the physical world. He amputates \u00a0members that become unusable so as to free the whole human being. He is the last expedient to save life.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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