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Soon After Death Principles
Clairvoyant Research and The Life After Death
Geoffrey Hodson
(1935)
In nearly all cases, man is as unconscious of dying as of falling asleep. He passes, as it were, upon a sigh from this world to the next. He is generally engaged in a process of review in which the events of the life just closed pass before his mind's eye in clear perspective; causes and effects are correlated, successes and their results, failures and their outworkings. This process of review is very important, for from it is distilled a certain wisdom, the fruitage of the life just closed. It is for this reason that we should be mentally, emotionally, and physically quiet in the chamber of death, lest by an excess of grief we disturb the loved one in this important process. He is now living in his subtler body, the body of feeling, and is therefore highly sensitive to the forces of thought and emotion. Our thoughts should rightly be turned in love towards him, and in blessing and aspiration for his progress inwards to the inner worlds, but calmly and with self-control. In Theosophy we are taught to dwell not so much upon our own great loss as upon their transcendent gain; and transcendent gain it is to be freed from the physical body and its limitations.
The review ended, there generally follows a period of complete unconsciousness which may last from thirty-six to forty-eight hours, varying with the individual. Then the awakening into the new life occurs, and the man, frequently still unaware of what has happened, looks about him. In nearly all cases some friend or relative is awaiting him; or if he has none such to welcome him into the new life, then some member of the great band of helpers whose work it is to welcome newcomers comes forward to receive him. Such helpers are members of a great and highly trained band of servers deputed to this particular work of assisting new arrivals. These welcome newcomers explain the new life, and help them to settle down to it as comfortably as possible. Few if any in these days enter that world without some hand being stretched forth to welcome and assist them in the first stages of the new life.. What will be the nature of this new life?
At this point I must say something which will perhaps be difficult to believe, but since I know it to be true and of great importance in our study I must put it before you. It is that the world to which our friends have gone and to which we shall all go when our time comes is no strange land, for we go there every night whilst our physical bodies sleep. Sleep has aptly and truly been called the twin brother of death. We may go further and call them the same thing; for whilst the physical body sleeps we are awake in the body which we shall use after death. Our dreams are in part the confused memories of our life in that world which we bring back on awakening. The difference between sleep and death lies in the fact that in sleep the "silver cord" which links us to the body is not broken. In death, the cord is broken, and as we have then no link with the physical body we are unable to return to it. It is, however, no strange land to which we awaken at bodily death, for we already know it well, and in many cases have our place there, and our work.
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Clairvoyant Research and The Life After Death
Geoffrey Hodson
(1935)
In nearly all cases, man is as unconscious of dying as of falling asleep. He passes, as it were, upon a sigh from this world to the next. He is generally engaged in a process of review in which the events of the life just closed pass before his mind's eye in clear perspective; causes and effects are correlated, successes and their results, failures and their outworkings. This process of review is very important, for from it is distilled a certain wisdom, the fruitage of the life just closed. It is for this reason that we should be mentally, emotionally, and physically quiet in the chamber of death, lest by an excess of grief we disturb the loved one in this important process. He is now living in his subtler body, the body of feeling, and is therefore highly sensitive to the forces of thought and emotion. Our thoughts should rightly be turned in love towards him, and in blessing and aspiration for his progress inwards to the inner worlds, but calmly and with self-control. In Theosophy we are taught to dwell not so much upon our own great loss as upon their transcendent gain; and transcendent gain it is to be freed from the physical body and its limitations.
The review ended, there generally follows a period of complete unconsciousness which may last from thirty-six to forty-eight hours, varying with the individual. Then the awakening into the new life occurs, and the man, frequently still unaware of what has happened, looks about him. In nearly all cases some friend or relative is awaiting him; or if he has none such to welcome him into the new life, then some member of the great band of helpers whose work it is to welcome newcomers comes forward to receive him. Such helpers are members of a great and highly trained band of servers deputed to this particular work of assisting new arrivals. These welcome newcomers explain the new life, and help them to settle down to it as comfortably as possible. Few if any in these days enter that world without some hand being stretched forth to welcome and assist them in the first stages of the new life.. What will be the nature of this new life?
At this point I must say something which will perhaps be difficult to believe, but since I know it to be true and of great importance in our study I must put it before you. It is that the world to which our friends have gone and to which we shall all go when our time comes is no strange land, for we go there every night whilst our physical bodies sleep. Sleep has aptly and truly been called the twin brother of death. We may go further and call them the same thing; for whilst the physical body sleeps we are awake in the body which we shall use after death. Our dreams are in part the confused memories of our life in that world which we bring back on awakening. The difference between sleep and death lies in the fact that in sleep the "silver cord" which links us to the body is not broken. In death, the cord is broken, and as we have then no link with the physical body we are unable to return to it. It is, however, no strange land to which we awaken at bodily death, for we already know it well, and in many cases have our place there, and our work.
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