This passage from Esoteric Healing (P. 392-3) is offered as a quiet glimpse into Life and Death — a view that reaches beyond our usual understanding of physical embodiment. It touches the continuity that ever stands behind our time on Earth.
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“The fear and the morbidness which the subject of death evokes, and the unwillingness to face it with understanding are due to the emphasis which people lay upon the fact of the physical body and the facility with which they identify themselves with it; it is based also upon an innate fear of loneliness and the loss of the familiar. Yet the loneliness which eventuates after death, when the person finds themselves without a physical vehicle, is as nothing compared to the loneliness of birth.
At birth, the soul finds itself in new surroundings and immersed in a body which is at first totally incompetent to take care of itself or to establish intelligent contact with surrounding conditions for a long period of time.
The individual comes into incarnation with no recollection as to the identity or the significance to him of the group of souls in bodies with which he finds himself in relationship; this loneliness only disappears gradually as he makes his own personality contacts, discovers those who are congenial to him and eventually gathers around him those whom he calls his friends.
After death this is not so, for the individual finds on the other side of the veil those whom he knows and who have been connected with him in physical plane life, and he is never alone as human beings understand loneliness; he is also conscious of those still in physical bodies; he can see them, he can tune in on their emotions, and also upon their thinking, for the physical brain, being non-existent (there), no longer acts as a deterrent.
If people but knew more, birth would be the experience which they would dread, and not death, for birth establishes the soul (our true Self) in the true prison, and physical death is only the first step towards liberation.
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