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IMMORTALITY

DESCRIPTION OF THE CARD.

In this Arcanum the heads of wheat represent rebirth, as do the flowers; the flowers, the beginning of life; the wheat, the end.

A Hierarch of the Law cuts some sheaves of wheat which have grain of varying sizes, both large and small. These are what are called “Boby-Caldenos” and represent the values, the capital which each human being carries in his three brains (intellectual, motor, emotional).

He who carries small grain lives only a short while; dying within a few days, months or in the first few years of life. One lives by thirds and one dies by thirds; he who squanders his intellectual capital descends into madness, schizophrenia, etc. He who abuses his motor or movement centre ends up being paralysed, deformed, etc. He who misuses his emotional centre suffers from ailments of the heart.

This Arcanum represents both the internal and the physical. It is the Arcanum of Judas Iscariot which represents the death of the “Ego”.

The scythe is the funeral symbol of the Angels of Death.

ESOTERIC SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ARCANUM.

Death is really the return to the womb. Life and death are two phenom ena of a single thing.

Death is a subtraction of fractions; when the mathematical calculation ends, all that remains are the values of Consciousness. The values of the personality are subtracted. For the personality of the defunct there is no tomorrow, it has a beginning and an end.

Trapped within the “Ego” are the values of the Consciousness. These, seen clairvoyantly resemble a legion of phantoms. This is what continues.

The return of the values is a mechanism of nature. The Soul really does not return because man has not incarnated his Soul. Only the values return.

When the hour of death arrives the Angel of Death attends the death bed of the dying one, having the duty to cut the cord of existence. In the precise instant of exhaling the last breath, the Angel of Death removes the individual from his physical body, and with his scythe cuts the Sil ver Cord. (This is a mysterious silvery thread which connects the inter nal bodies with the physical body). This magnetic cord can extend or reduce to infinity. It is due to this cord that we can reincorporate in the physical body in the moment of awakening after sleep.

The dying usually sees the Angel of Death. They, when working, dress in funeral garb and take on a spectral, skeletal appearance, grasping the scythe with which they cut the Silver Cord. They assume this gloomy appearance only whilst working, apart from this they adopt very beautiful forms, at times of children, at times of ladies or of venerable elders. The Angels of Death are never evil or perverse; they always work in accordance with the Great Law. Each one has his hour to be born, and his exact moment to die.

The Angels of Death are very wise. They develop and operate under the Ray of Saturn.

They know not only all that which is related to the common place and normal death of the physical body; these ministers of death are, as well, profoundly wise in all that which is related with the Death of the pluralised “I”.

Proserpina, the Queen of the Infernos, is also Hecate, the Blessed God dess Mother Death, under whose direction the Angels of Death work. Mother Space transformed into Mother Death dearly loves her children, and for this reason she takes them.

The Blessed Goddess Mother Death has the power to punish us when we violate the Law and authority to take our life. She is, indubitably, only one magnificent facet of our Mystic Dyad; a splendid form of our own Being. Without her consent no Angel of Death would dare to break the thread of life, the Silver Cord, the Antakarana.

Three human forms go to the grave:

A: the physical body.

B: the vital body or Lingam Sarira.

C: the personality.

The physical body in a gradual process disintegrates within the grave. The vital body floats before the sepulchre, its phosphorescent spectre at times being visible to persons who are very psychic. It disintegrates slowly as the physical body disintegrates.

The personality is energetic, is formed during the first seven years of childhood, and is strengthened with time and with experiences. The personality is a child of its time; born in its time. There is no tomorrow for the personality of the defunct. After the death of the physical body, the personality is also within the grave, but it comes out when someone brings flowers, when some mourner visits. It moves about the cemetery and returns to its grave. Within the cemetery, it slowly disintegrates.

That which continues, that which does not go to the grave, is the “Ego”, the self, the myself, the “I”; which is a particular sum of “I” devils which personify our psychological defects.

That which continues after death is not then, very beautiful. That which is not destroyed along with the physical body is none other than a multitude of devils, of psychic aggregates, of defects. The only decent thing that exists within all those cavernicolous entities which constitute the ego is the Essence, the Psyche, the Buddhata.

Normally, these psychic aggregates function within the astral and mental worlds. Rare are those Essences who are able to free themselves for a time from these subjective elements in order to enjoy a holiday in the causal world before returning to this vale of tears. This is however, possible, with the dissolution of the ego.

The egos normally submerge within the mineral realm in the infernal worlds, or return immediately or shortly thereafter to a new organism.

The ego continues in the seed of our descendents. We return incessantly in order to always repeat the same dramas, the same tragedies.

We must stress the fact that not all the aggregates achieve a human return. In reality many “I-devils” are lost because they submerge within the mineral realm, or continue re-incorporating in animal organisms, or resolutely cling, adhere to determined places.

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