DEATH

 

 

When the spirit enters the body, he is programmed to be with it for a certain period of time.  In other words, death is predestined.  But the manner in which death comes depends on forces interacting during the designated interval.

 

The cause might be disease, debility, accident, or violent death.  It becomes violent when a person has to pay great karmic debts.  Death may also come when the astral body in one of his wanderings in the world beyond fails to return.  This is "bangungot," in which case, most likely, the programmed time has not been reached.  The poor spirit will keep on wandering until his judgment day.

 

The will power of a person is stronger than his predestination.  The person can countermand the program.  This is the exercise of free will.  His level of Awareness will teach him how to effectively do this.

 

The "Spirit of Death" is the spirit whose assignment is to cut off the silver cord joining one's spirit to the body and to padlock the control room in the brain so that no other spirit can enter it.  When the time of death nears, positive and negative forces come in.  The role of the devil is to tempt man, to test him if he is fit for the higher level of spiritual evolution.  On the other hand, the role of his Guardian Angel is to infuse him strength to accept the inevitable and to pray.  The other spirits can detect his last hour.  His relatives, who are still hanging around on the 15th floor, come to his succor.  That is why, when one is about to die he starts calling his relatives.  No wonder he becomes clairvoyant.  The door at the control room has been opened and he can see the spirits around him.

 

And when the inevitable happens, he suddenly sees light.  His third eye has been opened.  This is the spiritual world full of light.  He finds himself gravity-free.  He floats.  But alas, he could not talk to his relatives anymore.  He sees them crying for him.  Their prayers give him strength and he feels he can travel anywhere he wants to.  He asks for permission to communicate.

 

And all he is allowed is to give them some signs.  Sometimes he enters a butterfly to warn a loved one of his passing.  Sometimes, he is allowed to cause the smell of candles or flowers.

 

When his body is finally interred, he is at peace.  After forty days and nights of retrospection and washing off of traces of material dirt, he is ready for his sentence: to heaven above or to hell down below Earth.  His karmic balance will determine the height in heaven or depth if he is to be imprisoned in hall.

 

But when his body is left uninterred, he is restless.  He could not sit for judgment.  He is worried that another spirit might enter the body and he be made responsible for whatever evil it may cause, be it in thoughts or in deeds.  He has to request St. Peter to assign somebody to guard his physical body.  Then and only then does he sit for judgment.