The Term: Silver Chord

The Term: Silver Chord – (2752)

It was the Tibetan Lama and author Tuesday Lobsang Rampa that used the term ‘silver cord’ to refer to the special cord that links our essence to our physical body.

He says in his book: “The Third Eye” that he took the term from the bible as given below:

At the moment of death, the cord joining the physical and spirit bodies (the “Silver Cord” of the Christian Bible) thins and parts, and the spirit drifts off. Death has then taken place. But birth into a new life, for the “cord” is similar to the umbilical cord which is severed to launch a new-born baby to a separate existence. At the moment of death the Glow of Lifeforce is extinguished from the head. This Glow also can be seen by a clairvoyant, and in the Christian Bible is referred to as “The Golden Bowl”. Not being a Christian I am not familiar with the Book, but I believe there is a reference to “Lest the Silver Cord be severed, and the Golden Bowl be shattered”.

Here is the exact reference from the bible where he took the term ‘silver cord’ from.

"Remember Him before the silver cord is broken, and the golden bowl is crushed, the pitcher by the well is shattered, and the wheel at the cistern is crushed; then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it."

~Ecclesiastes 12:6-12:7

Conclusion

Tuesday Lobsang Rampa introduced this term when writing and teaching to the West so that it would be familiar and more readily accepted by the West.

End (2752).

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