An Overview
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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