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Introduction to Life and Death - (723)

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Particularly in the west we lack knowledge of death. Our attitude is to even ignore death. It is a taboo topic for many occasions. In society, at school, university and even in various religions we are certainly not taught about: how to deal with the death of others, how to prepare for our own death and what happens after death.

Death is our last action in life and is the most important action of our life. Death is part of life and it is the crown of our life, the sum of our life. It is the moment when we as consciousness have our ties to this world severed and are free to move to the worlds beyond. In many ways death is the start to a new life, and even though so many people have died there is no preparation or course or set of teachings available to people to in common society about death, even with death being the most important moment of our life.


Gnosis on the other hand wishes for us to look at death and be prepared for it, even to reach the goal of dying consciously and knowing full well before our death arrives what is waiting us there in the worlds beyond this one. This is a noble action towards the human being and is one that is for the person agonising and facing death is one very much appreciated.

Birth and death are intimately linked. They are opposites that touch each other and depend upon each other. We say there is one life, that is the stream of life that comes from the Spirit and that birth brings this life to the planet and death takes it from the planet, in effect life delivers one to death and death delivers one to birth or life once again.

The Gnostic study of life and death essentially are to do with death, and approach death from a philosophical and practical esoteric point of view. Seeing death from a philosophical point of view helps us to understand death and to change our way of thinking towards death, and seeing death from a practical esoteric point of view helps us to be actually prepared for death.


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