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.No experiments should be permitted.SECTION 20The process of dying.Cremation.To be conscious at the moment of death.Death is the fifth class and is especially psychic destiny.It marks the end of theperiod during which the embodied doer works through the four senses in the physicalworld.The time of death had been determined at the end of the previous life.Usuallythe place and manner of death are also decided by the thoughts in the previous life. Fear of death is caused by a feeling of the doer that it has not earned its consciousimmortality, and it dreads its ignorance and the unknown.There are other causes forthe fear of death.The doer has been through the experience of death so often that itfears the experience, because it means a break in the continuity of life, a parting fromthings it has held dear and uncertainty of the future.The doer feels that there is to bean accounting, something that it must pass through.Dying is the withdrawal or rolling up of the three inner bodies or masses, (Fig.III), from the extremities toward the heart.As they recede, rigor mortis sets in; theregions which they leave become cold and there is no feeling in them.Then thesemasses hover or flutter over the heart and puff themselves out of the mouth with thelast breath, causing a slight gurgle or rattle in the throat.With them go the breath-form and the doer, which is the cause of the rolling up of the inner bodies.They hoverover the physical body like a bird, a cloud or a globe, or they may stand in humanform beside or above the body for a while.Usually the doer does not see its body oranything else.If death has not yet taken place, there is a slight line or ray or cord thatconnects these finer inner bodies with the heart or some other part.While thisconnection remains it is possible for these finer bodies and the doer with the breath-form to reenter the body.There is no actual death until this connection is broken.Theconnection is broken when the breath-form leaves.It leaves when the doer desires,consents or wills to die.The doer that is attached to life at first refused to desire to die.But when it knows, by the Light of the Intelligence, that it is useless to cling to thebody, it wills, and death is instantaneous.The time taken to reach the decision is notmeasured by the standard of external time.According to that, death is alwaysinstantaneous.At death the four senses and the breath-form and the doer leave and are separatedfrom the flesh body.The four senses remain with the breath-form which usuallyleaves the three inner bodies.These remain with the physical body and in none ofthem is there seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling or feeling.Nothing that may be done tothe flesh body or to the finer bodies can be felt in any way by the doer, the only entitythat can feel.Cremation is the best disposition of the body after death.By burning, the materialof the body is soon restored to the elements from which it came and the three innerbodies or masses are dissipated; and so the magnetic connection between them andthe breath-form and the remains of the flesh body ceases.The physical atmosphere isalso destroyed.Where a body is devoured by birds, fishes and animals, the three finerbodies are destroyed as soon as the flesh is digested.The radiant, airy and fluid bodiesgo with the solid fragments like smoke or a shadow.It is different in life, where thebreath-form is present and holds the inner bodies intact.Burial and embalming are theworst methods.These customs, bad for the doer and for the community, hold the innerbodies with the flesh body for a long time, namely, until the flesh body has decayed.As the physical atmosphere is not destroyed by burial, it is possible for the doer withits breath-form to go back to its old haunts.It cannot find them without its physicalatmosphere.Death is a friend to the doer.Death frees it from the turmoil, changes anduncertainties of physical life, so that it may have a rest before it is drawn back foranother life on earth.During life it is well to set the thought upon being conscious at the time of deathand to charge the breath-form to remind the doer to be conscious of the passing overand of its identity with its thinker and knower.The doer will not be conscious at thetime of death, unless this has been impressed upon the breath-form by manyrepetitions during life.The doer ought to be conscious of the Light of the Intelligence,but unless it was conscious of the presence of the Light during life, it will not be conscious of it at death.If it has been conscious of the Light during life and if it isreminded by the breath-form of its passing, it will be conscious at the time of its deathand will also be conscious of the Light of the Intelligence.Then it will understandwhat is before it and will go through it more easily.SECTION 21After death.Communications with the dead.Apparitions.The doer becomesconscious that its body has died.The sixth class of psychic destiny is of the states through which the doer passesafter death, (Fig.V-D).After death the various entities that were combined into ahuman being gradually separate.The more quickly the fourfold physical body isdisposed of the better it is for the entities composing it, for the doer and for the peoplein the world.When the physical body is consumed, the elementals, nature units,which are its atoms, molecules and cells, are freed and return to their respective fourelements, that is, states of matter, in the earth sphere.From there they are drawn intoother bodies, mineral, vegetable, animal and human.So they continue their constantcirculation during the life and the dissolution of the different bodies of which theyform a part.The radiant-solid or astral body, which was during life the matter that contactedthe invisible breath-form, took its form from that and was visible to clairvoyants, isnow only the shadow of the physical body.During life the fluid body was the carrierof life to the physical body from the food that the four states of matter furnished.In aphysical body each cell is insulated and is not in touch with any other cell.The astral,airy, and fluid bodies pass through these cells and connect them with each other, sothat a current of life can flow through them.After death the astral body has lost touchwith the breath-form and is as dead as the solid body.It decays in the astral state ofthe physical plane as the flesh decays in the airy, fluid and solid states of the physicalplane.The places are now reversed.In life the grosser physical body depended on theastral, but after death the astral depends on the grosser physical and so can last only aslong as that does.This disposes of the fourfold physical body, which is dissipatedafter death and takes no part in any of the after-death states of the doer.The breath-form with its four senses and the portion of the doer remain togetherin the atmospheres of the doer and go together through a process usually called hell.This entity is the human without the fourfold physical body.After death there is a period of unconsciousness, that separates the doer from thephysical world and the state in which it finds itself.The period may last less than anhour, or it may be many years.The doer becomes conscious again in different ways
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