Where do we go to, when we abandon our physical body? Where do we dive down? Through our death, we dive down with lightning speed into that which forms our physical body, from out [of] all the super-sensible forces.
Imagine that all the constructive forces that have worked upon your physical body ever since the pre-time were to stretch themselves into infinity in order to prepare the place in which you live between death and a new birth.
Between birth and death, all this is drawn together, I might say, within the space enclosed by your skin, it is merely drawn together. [Exactly like an interval from
When we are outside our physical body, we experience something that is of utmost importance for the whole subsequent life between death and a new birth!!!
I have often mentioned this experience is of opposite character to the corresponding experience during our life here upon the physical plane.
During our life upon the physical plane we cannot look back as far as the hour of our birth, we cannot look back upon it with the aid of our ordinary cognitive power.
There is not one person who can remember his own birth, nor look back upon it. The only thing we know, is that we were born, in the first place, because we have been told so by others, and in the second place, beacuse all the other human beings that came to the earth after us, were also born, so that we infer from this that we too, were born.
But we cannot pass through the real experience of our own birth.
Exactly the opposite is the case with the corresponding experience after death!!!
[Like semi-open-closed interval in a mathematical script.]
Whereas, during our physical life, the immediate contemplation of our birth can never rise up before our soul, the moment of death stands before our soul throughout our life between death and a new birth, if we only look upon it spiritually!!
We must realise that we then look upon the moment of death from the other side; here, on Earth, death has a terrifying aspect only because we look upon it as a kind of dissolution, as the end.
But when we look back upon the moment of death from the other side, from the spiritual side, then death continually appears to us as a victory of the spirit, as the spirit that is extricating itself from the physical!?
It then appears as the greatest, most beautiful and significant event, moreover, this experience kindles that which constitutes our Ego-consciousness after death!
Throughout the time between death and a new birth, we have an Ego-consciousness that not only resembles but far exceeds that which we have here, during our physical life!!
We would not have this Ego-consciousness, if we could not look back incessantly, if we would not always see — but from the other side, from the spiritual side — that moment in which our spiritual part extricated itself from the physical.
We would not have this Ego-consciousness, if we could not look back incessantly, if we would not always see, but from the other side, from the spiritual side, that moment in which our spiritual part extricated itself from the physical.
When we cannot contemplate the moment of death, beyond the portal of death, then our Ego-consciousness after death is in the same case as our physical Ego-consciousness here upon the earth, when we are asleep.
Just as we know nothing of our physical Ego-consciousness when we are asleep, so we know nothing concerning ourselves after death, if we do not constantly have before us the moment of death.
It stands before us as one of the most beautiful and loftiest moments!!! ❤️