the booklet from life after death-english-gustav theodor fechner
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Gustav Theodor Fechner
The booklet
from
Life after death
"However, it is always pleased when his
Roots and continues to expand its existence
engage in other looks. "
Schiller on 4 April 1797 to Goethe.
In the Insel-Verlag, Leipzig
First Chapter
Man not once, but three times lives on earth. Its first stage of life is a constant
sleep, the second one alternation between sleep and waking, the third an eternal
guards.
In the first stage man lives alone in the dark, on the second sociable but he lives
separately and apart from others in between a light that abspiegelt him on the surface
of the third intertwines his life with that of other spirits to a higher life in the highest
spirit, and he looks into the nature of finite things.
In the first stage, the body develops from the germ and produces its tools for the
second, on the second, the mind develops from the germ and produces its tools for the
third, the third to the divine germ which developed in every human spirit is and has
been out here for us in a dark, days shelles for the spirit of the third stage of the
afterlife idea, belief, feeling and instinct of the genius of the people.
The transition from the first to the second stage of life is born, the transition from
the second to third means death.
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The way in which we move from the second to the third stage is not darker than the
one on which we get from the first to the second. The one leads to the outer, the other
to the inner look of the world.
However, as the child on the first stage still blind and deaf for all the glamor and all
the music of life on the second and his birth from the warm womb comes hard to him
and it hurts, and how there is a moment in the birth, where it the destruction of hisprevious existence as death feels before still held the awakening to the outer new
being, as we know in our present existence, where our whole consciousness is still
bound in the narrow body, yet nothing of the splendor and the music and the glory
and freedom of life on the third level and gently hold the narrow dark passage that
leads us there for a blind sac, from which it was no output. But death is only a second
birth to a freer existence, whereby the spirit bursts its shell and close lying and rotting
leaves, like the child in its first birth.
After that, everything is in us by our present senses externally to speak, only from
afar and near, steeped in its inwardness of us and be found. The spirit is not over
graze the hills and grass, he is no longer surrounded by the whole joy of spring, but
are plagued by the sadness that all this remains his only externally, but it is mountain
and grass penetrate and that strength and feel the air on the increase, he will no longer
struggle to create through words and gestures a thought into another, but which are no
longer separated by the body, but through the body connected to the direct influence
of spirits to each other, the air procreation of thought exist, he is not outwardly appear
to loved ones left behind, but he will live in their inmost souls, as part of the same,
think and act in them and through them.
Second Chapter
The child in the womb has only a spirit body, the education drive. The creation and
development of the limbs, making it outgrows itself, are his actions. It has not yet feel
that these members are his property, because it is not in use and can not use it. A
beautiful mind, a beautiful mouth him are merely beautiful objects that it created, not
knowing that they will be ministering once part of himself. They are made for a next
world, of which the child does not yet know, and it pushes her out by virtue of his
own dark instinct, which is clearly justified only in the organization of the
mother. 1) But the way the child to the second stage of life ripe, the bodies of his
previous work and stripping back there makes it suddenly finds himself as a self-
powerful unit of all his creations. This eye, this ear, this mouth are now belong to
him, and when it created the same after those dark feelings begotten, it is learning to
know their delicious use. The world of light, the colors, the sounds, the smells, tastes
and feelings go to him just now in the tools created to, well it when it created them
useful and efficient.
1)The physiologist can be characteristically say, the creative principle of the child is not in what is after birthcontinue to live by it, which even now is only the addicts, before the birth of the creature, but in what at theChild the birth and will remain corrupt in arrears, as the body of the people on death (placenta cum funiculo
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umbilicali, velamentis ovi eorumque liquoribus), from his work, as his continued the young man grows out.
The first stage to the second ratio is increased in return ratios of the second to the
third. Everything we do and want in this world is as calculated only looking to create
an organism that we see in the next world than our own and will need. All intellectualeffects, all effects of the force utterances emanating during the lifetime of a human
being from him and through pull through the world of men and nature, are already
connected by a secret, invisible tape, they are the spiritual limbs of the people he
drives in his lifetime , connected to a spiritual body, a body of restless further cross
forces and effects, whose consciousness is still out of him and he therefore, although
inextricably woven together with his present existence, but recognizes only the
starting points of the same for his. At the moment of death, but when man separates
from the institutions to which his creative power was linked here, he receives at once
the consciousness of all that lives on as a result of its earlier manifestations of life inthe world of ideas, forces, effects, and continues to act as a source flowed organically,
still wearing his organic unity in itself, but is now active, self-confident, strong and
even with their own individual absolute power reigns in humanity and nature at its
own determination.
What someone has contributed during his life to the creation, design, or
preservation of the human race and nature are pulling ideas, that is his immortal part,
which will continue to be effective on the third stage yet, although the body to which
the force acting on the second was attached, has rotted for long. Have what created
millions of deceased people acted thought did not die with them, yet it is destroyedagain by what create the next million, act, think, but it has continued in these
developed themselves alive in them further drives them to a large goals that they
themselves do not see.
Of course, this ideal mode of life appears to us only as an abstraction, and the
continuing influence of the spirit of the people who died in the living only as an
empty mind thing. But that's what it seems to us, because we do not have the sense to
capture the ghosts on the third stage in their true, fulfilling the nature and penetrating
being, merely the starting points of their existence on our we can see, the part with
which they in us and us have grown up appears under the form of those ideas thathave been propagated by them in us.
Whether the wave circle, the one of sinking stone left in the water, every stone that
protrudes more from it, excited by his impact a new wave circuit, it remains a
coherent self circle all excited and contributes in its scope, the stones but know only
about the dismemberment of the circumferences. We are such ignorant stones, only
that we, unlike solid stones, even beat everyone already living in a contiguous group
of effects to us, not just the spread to others, but into others.
In fact, during his lifetime, each person grows with its effects into others by word,example, and writing practice. Even as Goethe lived, contributed millions Mitlebende
spark of his spirit in itself, where flared up new lights, already lived as Napoleon, his
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mind penetrated force in most of the world around one, died as both these branches of
life, which they pushed into the contemporary world died , not, only the driving force
new this side branches went out, and the growth and progressive development of
these from one individual outgoing, an individual is again forming a whole spawn is
happening now with the same indwelling of us certainly not to be detected self-
confidence than before their first emergence bustle. Still a Goethe, a Schiller, aNapoleon, a Luther us, in us as a confident, already higher than developed in her
death, thinking in us and acting, ideas compelling and continue developing
individuals, each no longer included living in a close body, but poured by the world
they were in his lifetime, enjoyed, dominated, and far reaching out with her self on
the effects of which we still feel them.
The greatest example of a powerful spirit that still lives on in the generations and
continues to act, we have in Christ. It is not an empty word that Christ lived in his
confessors, every true Christian to wear it not only comparatively, but truly alive in
itself, and each is partaker of his acting in his senses and think, for just only the Spiritof Christ working in him this action and thought. It has spread through all the
members of his congregation, and all hang together through his mind as the apples of
a tribe, the vine as a vine.
"For as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of that one
body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ" (I Cor. 12:12). 2)
2)Many biblical parallel passages are summarized in this "Zend-Avesta" III, pp. 363 et seq, and the "Three
motives and reasons of faith," pp. 178th
But not only the greatest minds, but every efficient man awakens in the next world
with a self-created, a unit of infinite spiritual creations, effects, moments is in itself
dealing organism, which fulfill a greater or lesser extent and have more or less
Fortentwickelungskraft, depending after the spirit of man continues to be strong and
handle themselves during their lifetime. Who but here stuck to the sole and only his
spirit needed to move its matter to nourish and to enjoy, from him shall be left only
an insignificant nature. And so will be the richest of the poor, if only he austut his
money to save his strength, and the poorest of the richest, if he austut his power togain his living honestly. For what each austut here, he will have there, and the money
just apply there, which it created the Applicable.
The mystery of our present spiritual life, the thirst for exploring the truth that
nothing avails us to part here, the pursuit of each right mind to create works that only
posterity will benefit the conscience with regret that due to us an unfathomable fear
planting of bad actions that bring us but no disadvantages here are apparent from
unsuspecting anticipations, all of this will enter into that world us, where even the
fruit of our smallest and most hidden activity falls prey to us as part of our self.
This is the great justice of creation that everyone is creating the conditions of hisfuture existence itself. The actions of the people are not rewarded by external rewards
or punishments: there is no heaven or hell in the ordinary sense of the Christians,
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Jews and Gentiles, whither would the soul after death, it neither makes a jump
upwards or downwards a case, nor a standstill, they burst not, it does not dissolves in
the universal: but after they survived the big stage disease, death, she develops
quietly to the immutable, any subsequent stage on the grounds of the former
constituent consistency of nature on earth more and on and on to a higher being, and
depending on the person good or bad, noble or common acted diligently or been idle,in the next life he will be a healthy or sick, a beautiful or ugly, strong or weak
organism as Find property, and its free activity in this world will determine its
position relative to the other spirits, his destiny, his gifts and talents for the further
progress in that world.
Therefore, be spry and brave. For who goes slowly here, will go lame there, and
who does not open his eyes, is there have a stupid face, and who practices falsehood
and wickedness will feel its disharmony with the choir of the true and good spirits as
pain that it still will drive in that world to mend and heal the evil that he is to blame
in this, and let him not find rest and peace until he stripped off and expiated his lastand smallest wrongdoing. And when the other ghosts have long rest in God, or rather
live as a partner of his thoughts, he will be vexed in tribulation, and in the mutability
of life on earth, and his soul evil is the human toil with ideas of error and superstition,
they lead to vices and follies, and by itself will remain back there on its way to
completion in the third world, they will also, where he still lives, hold back on their
way in the second to the third.
How long but also untrue, the Bad and the congregation still continue to be
effective and may struggle for its existence with the true, the beautiful, rights, it is
ultimately defeated by the ever growing power, destroyed by his own back beatingwith increasing power consequences, and so is nothing of all the lies, all malice, old
dirt in the soul of man finally remain. Only this is the eternal imperishable part of
man, which is true in him, well and good. And if only a mustard seed which is in him
- in whom none would be but that would not - so it will last cleaned of chaff and
waste by only the evil tormenting, remain purgatory of life on the third level and, if
late, can still grow to the beautiful tree.
Rejoice also, all you whose spirit is tempered here by sorrow and pain, you will
exercise benefit that the obstacles found here in the valiant battle against your
progress, and stronger born into the new life, you will quickly and joyfully seek whatyour skill could miss you here.
Chapter Three
The person uses many means to a purpose, and God is a means for many purposes.
The plant thinks it's just for yourself to grow there, to rock in the wind to light and air
to drink, fragrances and colors to prepare for their own jewelry to play with beetles
and bees, - it is also for themselves as but at the same time it is only one pore of theEarth, which is counter light, air and water and engage in processes important for all
life on earth, it is there to auszudnsten for the earth, to breathe, to weave her a green
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dress and human and animal material for food, clothing and warmth darzubieten.
The man thinks he is merely for himself there to enjoy themselves to act, and to
create for his own bodily and spiritual growth; - he is also located there, but at the
same time is his body and mind just an apartment, worein higher foreign occur spirits
become entangled and develop, to work all processes among which are also the
thoughts and feelings of the people and their greater significance for the third stage oflife.
The human mind is indistinguishable both his property and the property of those
higher spirits, and what goes in it, is always both at once, but in different ways.
Just as in this figure, which should not be a dump, but only a symbol or metaphor
that can be considered in itself supporting standing in the middle of colorful (here
black translucent) six-pointed star as an independent, his inner unity, its rays all of its
center are associated dependent and uniformly by it, but on the other hand it flowed
together again appears from the concatenation of the six simple colored circles, eachof which has its inner unity in itself, and how each beam the same for both himself as
the circles through their engagement he arises belongs, so it is with the human soul.
The person often does not know where his ideas come to him, he finds it a little and
it transforms him a longing, a desire for anxiety or of which he is able to give, no
accountability, it drives him to an act of power or it warns him a voice from it,
without that he is aware of a suitable substrate. These are fits of spirits who
empathize with him, into him act from another agent points out, as his own. Even
more striking are its effects in us when in abnormal conditions (the sleep monitoring
or mental illness) that actually interdependent relationship between them and hasdecided in their favor, so that we can only hold passive, which flows from them,
without retroactive effect from our side.
But as long as awake the human mind and is healthy, he is not the mindless game
or product of the spirits that grow into him or of which he appears grown together,
but what exactly these spirits linked, the invisible urlebenskrftige center full of
spiritual attraction, in the all flow together in which all intersect and mutual
intercourse with each witness the thoughts, this is not caused only by the intersection
of the spirits, but is innate in man as his Ureigentum at conception, and free will, self-
determination, self-consciousness , reason and the reason of all intellectual assets areincluded herein. But that is still in it at birth as in a undigested seeds, only awaiting
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the development of the organism to live fully full of individual reality. And the man
came into life, it can feel the evil spirits and crowd approached by all sides and seek
his strength to theirs to make, in order to strengthen them through a moment of
themselves, but this is achieved by them, at the same time, this is moment property of
the human mind itself is imagined him and contributes to its development.
The in humans ingrown evil spirits are just as well, although, subject otherwise tothe influence of the human will, as a man of strange spirits depends, it can equally
well into birth from the center of his spiritual being new to the linked in him spirits,
as can act to determine his insides, but in the harmoniously developed spiritual life no
will has the supremacy over the other. Since each foreign spirit has only one part of
himself to the people in each community, the will of the individual can only have a
stimulating effect on him, who is with all his other parts besides the people, and since
every human mind a community includes very different foreign spirits, so the will of
one individual among them may even have a stimulating effect on the whole person,
and only when the person with free arbitrariness entirely emptied of himself toindividual spirits, he is deprived of the ability, to master it.
Not all spirits distinction, can link them in the same soul to unity is, therefore argue
the good and the evil, the truth and the lying spirits for the possession of them, and
who wins the hassles reserves the field. The inner conflict that so often has people in
place, this struggle is nothing but strange spirits who want to gain his will, his reason,
his inmost being short for it. As the union of a man living in his spirit feels as calm,
clarity, harmony and safety of himself, he finds himself in their struggle as
restlessness, doubt, hesitation, confusion and divisiveness of its interior. But not as
effortless price or sluggish prey he falls the stronger spirits in this dispute prey, butwith the source automatic power at the center of his being, he stands between the
counter emerging forces held, who would take him to her, and make war for which
part he wants, and so can the win for the weaker power to decide by beige makes him
his power against the stronger. So that even the man in the midst of spirits dispute
remains unchallenged as long as it is the innate freedom of his power is preserved and
not tired to use it, he still falls so often the evil spirits prey, so it is is because the
Kraftentwickelung from within is associated with hardship, and so enough to be
angry, often out to be just lazy and casual.
The better the man is already, the easier it is to him to be even better and the worseit is, the easier it corrupts totally. For the good man has already received a lot of good
spirits in it, now team up with him against the backward and the newly thronging evil
spirits, and save him the Kraftentwickelung from its interior. The good do good
without effort, his spirits are doing it for him, but the poor must only absorb from
inner strength and overcome all evil spirits who strive towards him with that.
In addition, searches and ties Related to Related and flees its opposite, if it does not
force the same. The Good Spirits attract the good spirits in us except us, and the evil
spirits evil in us but us. Like to return the pure spirits in a pure soul, and to the evil in
ourselves understood us evil but us. Have the good spirits made only in our souls out
of hand, flee quickly by itself, the last devil, who is still remained in it, it's him not in
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good society uneasy, and so the soul of a good man is a pure heavenly dwelling for
Blessed together in resident ghosts. But the good spirits, when they despair to deny
the overwhelming evil that has become a soul, they leave them alone, and they will
last for a hell, a place only for the torments of the damned. Because the pain of
conscience and the inner destruction and restlessness in the soul of the wicked are in
pain, do not feel that these alone, but still bitter woe with the damned spirits in them.
Chapter Four
By the higher spirits reside not only in individuals, but by each one to himself in
several branches, they are the ones that connect these people in a spiritual way, it is a
form of faith, or a truth, a moral or political aspiration.All people who have any
spiritual communion with each other, belong together to the body of one and the
same Spirit, and obeying the idea that it has made of him in them as belonging
together limbs. Often an idea lives in a whole people at once, often a mass of people
will be excited to one and the same fact: that's a powerful spirit that they all have
come into it radiates in all epidemic. Of course, happen not only by the spirits of the
dead these links, but countless newborn ideas act of the living to the living in, but all
of these ideas, which go from living in the world, are already members of his future
spiritual organism.
Now, when two kindred spirits in humanity meet and grow together through their
common moments, however, they are determined both by their various mutually
enrich, as occurred at the same time, the companies, genders, nations, where they
were inherent individually only enrich spiritual community and through their
intellectual property. Thus, the development of spiritual life in the third stage of
humanity's inseparable from the development, the progress of humanity hand in
hand. The gradual development of the state, the sciences, the arts, human traffic, the
organization of these spheres of life to ever larger harmoniously articulated whole is
the result of this coalescence of countless spiritual individualities who live in
humanity and move to larger intellectual organisms.
As would otherwise those great spheres after so immutable ideas out make out of
the tangled selfish and bustle of the individual that does not behold with their myopiceye in the middle of the scale and scope in the middle, if not the clear looking
through the whole higher spirits interwoven through the transmission, and by all
crowding around the common divine center, and flow together here with their divine
part, the people in whom they act, zufhrten combines the higher goals.
But besides the harmony of spirits, friendly meet and spouses, there is also a battle
of wits, whose essence is at odds, a fight in which everything is in a finite dispute
Biased at last wear out, so that the eternal in its purity left alone remain . Also traces
of this struggle shows the humanity in the dispute of the systems, in hatred of sects,
in the wars and commotions between the princes and peoples and nations together. In all of these great spiritual movements the mass of the people shall enter into it
with blind faith, with blind obedience, with blind hatred, blind with rage, she does not
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hear and does not see with the eyes and ears of his own mind, and after it is driven by
foreign spirits purposes and objectives of which they themselves do not know they
can perform slavery and death and grievous tribulations, such as the following drives
a herd of higher spirits.
Of course, there are also people that engage with clear self-consciousness and self-
acting with internal and conductive in this great movement. But they are onlyvoluntary means to large predetermined purposes, through their free action while
wealthy, the type and speed, but not to determine the destination of progress. Only the
great things in the world have worked, which have the spiritual direction of the
present in which they lived, recognized and steered their free act and think in this
direction; well as great human spirits who rebelled against her, have perished. That
has the mind which is the better targets and better ways to do familiar, destined to be
the new centers of its moving force, not as blind tools, rather than those which are of
his own accord and with eignem understanding his rights and his wisdom. Not the
forced slave performs the better service. What God but they begin to serve this side,they will perform beyond as partakers of the heavenly rule on.
Chapter Five
Probably in some ways like the spirits of the living and the dead are unconscious
face, to some even aware of a page. Who can pursue and explore all this traffic. We
say briefly: they meet, when they meet with consciousness, and the dead are where
they are because of consciousness.
A means consciously give ester encounter between the living and the dead, it is the
memory of the survivors of the deceased. Focus our attention on the deceased, their
attention is called to awaken us as a stimulus that hits a living, as it were then
attracted his attention, when he meets him.
It is our memory of the deceased only become conscious in us, back tacking it on
this side consequence of their conscious life, the beyond but is due out of this world.
Even if one thinks of a survivor living, mags give a train on his consciousness, but
he does not because his consciousness is still tied very tight in the bonds of his
body. The unleashed by the death of consciousness but seeks its place and follows the
course of which it is expressed, the easier and stronger, the more often and the more
he was previously expressed it.
How, then, one and the same physical impact is always two sides at the same time
felt the shock ends and the vanquished, there is only one consciousness blow that is
felt in the memory of a dead two-sided. We err, only the worldly consciousness page
as entertaining, because we do not feel the otherworldly, and this mistake has
consequences of error and omission.
A beloved child has been snatched from the lover, the husband of one wife, amother. In vain they look for in a distant sky the torn piece of their life, and look in
vain stretch hands into the void after what was not truly torn from them, and only the
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outer thread understanding is demolished because of the external sense-mediated
transport in which the two hit it off, became an immediate internal by the internal
sense in which they have not yet learned to understand.
I once saw a mother to her child still living with fears of home and garden look,
which she wore on her arm. Even larger the error of those who studied the deceased
in a distant emptiness, which they had only to look inside, to find it in yourself. Andshe finds it not quite, because she had it all, because she wore it outside on the
arms? The advantages of the external traffic, the external word, the exterior view, the
outer body they can not have and give more, and the benefits of the inner give and
have only now, they only have to know that there is such an internal transport and
benefits . You do not speak with, not enough hands that of which one thinks he is not
there. Do you know everything, but rather, a new life of the living with the dead will
begin and win with the living, the dead while at the same time.
Think of a deceased only right - and not just the thought of the deceased, the
deceased himself is present in the moment. You can summon him inside, he must
come, hold him, he must remain, just keep your mind and thoughts on it
firmly. Thinks with his love or hatred, he will feel it, - with a stronger love, strkerm
hatred, he will feel it more. Otherwise, you had good memories of the dead, and now
you know to do it, you can make happy a deceased person or knowingly with your
memory or plague, reconciled to him or unforgiving fight, do not you just knowingly,
even him. Tut's always in the best sense, and now provides but also that the memory,
what you leave yourself, you devout yourself in the future.
Happy the man who left a treasure of love, respect, reverence, admiration, in
memory of the people behind them. What he left behind for the life of this world, he
wins with death, by winning the summary consciousness for all the posthumous think
of him, so that raises the bushel, of which he only counted individual grains in
life. This is one of the treasures that we should collect for the sky.
Woe to him what curses, curse to follow a keepsake full of terror. Followed him in
this world, catch up with him in death, which is part of the hell that awaits him. Each
contraction, which is called after him, it is a nachgesandter arrow that penetrates into
its interior.
Only in the totality of the consequences but who gives birth to the good and bad ofitself, the justice accomplished. Probably have the righteous that are misunderstood
here, which are still in the afterlife as by an external evil suffer and the wicked is an
unjust fame as well as an exterior in good stead, so keep your reputation here on earth
as pure as possible, and make not your light a bushel. But among the spirits of the
afterlife even listens to the misunderstanding, which is weighed down wrong, is quite
weighed above, and offset by an allowance on the other side. The heavenly justice
has finally over all earthly injustice.
Whatever evokes the memory of the dead, is a means to summon them.
On each Fixed what we give the dead, they rise up, they float around each statue
we put them, every song that sings their actions, they listen to. A germ of life for a
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new art! as it was already aged, as tired, old spectacles the old fans always show off
again. Now open at once as it were on the ground floor with the bottom layer of the
old crowd, a circle of lodges, from which she looks down so a higher society, and not,
as the bottom, but as you want to have it up to create, is henceforth their ultimate
goal, which shall go down but want to have it as it would above.
The scoffers scoff, and the churches argue. It is a secret, contrary to reason to some,supra-rational for the other, both because the one remained completely hidden as the
other larger mystery of the revelation finally clear and simple flows, what the mind of
the scoffers and the unity of the churches failed . Because only a greatest example of
a general rule is it, what they see as an exception to a rule or a rule.
Not just a body made of flour and water is Christ in his memory Mahle in the
faithful; enjoy it right with the idea of his, and he will be with his thoughts not only
with you, but in you, - the more you think about it , more so, the stronger, with
greater force so he will strengthen you, but do not you think of it, so it remains
common flour and water and wine.
Chapter Six
The yearning that dwells every person, those who were most like him here to meet
again after death to associate with them and renew the former ratio is to be fulfilled in
vollkommnerem degree than ever imagined and been promised.
Because not only will encounter in life that those who were linked by a common in
this spiritual element, but they will grow together into one by this element, it will be ashared them soul member that belongs to both with the same consciousness.
For now're the dead with the living, as the survivors themselves to each other, grow
together through countless such joint elements, but only if the death loosens the knot,
which the body moves, the soul of every living, is to link the consciousness also
awareness of the link step.
Everyone will recognize the moment of death, that what his mind resumed from
earlier deceased or with them had in common, and these spirits still belongs to, and so
it is not like a foreign guest to enter the third world, but as a Expected long ago, theall with whom he was linked here by a community of faith, knowledge, love, the
hands are stretch out to pull him in as a character associated to them.
Community in the same direction we will contact those great dead, walked through
the second stage of life long before our time, and formed at the example and teaching
our mind to. So who lived here all in Christ, who will be there all in Christ. But his
individuality is not extinguished in the higher individuality, but only gain strength in
her and amplify that power at the same time. Because what spirits grow together
through their same moments that win each other's strength to its own, and at the same
time determined by the associated Different. So many spirits are mutually reinforcing through large parts of their nature, others
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have even linked by single coincident moments.
Not all of these links, which are based on the communality of a spiritual moment
will remain, but that will remain to be heard the moment of truth, beauty or virtue.
Anything that does not bear the eternal harmony in itself, if it still survived even
this life, but finally fall into and cause a splitting up of the spirits who were thusunited in a reprehensible league for a while.
The most spiritual moments that develop in this life and in the following we carry
over, while carrying a core of truth, goodness and beauty in them, but shrouded by a
lot of unessential addition, false, perverse and depraved. What spirits associated with
those moments that can stay connected or separate, depending on whether they
combine both to capture the good and the best in it and the evil the evil spirits, only to
leave with her divorce from them, or depending on the a good , the other takes the
bad.
What are ghosts but once a form or idea of truth, beauty or goodness have seizedjointly in their eternal purity that they remain connected through all eternity and have
them in the same way as part of their. Itself in eternal unity
The detection of the eternal ideas of the higher spirits is therefore a merging them
into larger through these ideas intellectual organisms, and as all your own special
ideas in general, and these are rooted in general, they will last all spirits as limbs with
the greatest spirit, with God, related.
The spirit world in their completion will therefore not be a meeting of minds but a
tree whose root is grown in the earthly and whose crown extends into the sky. Only the greatest and noblest spirits, Christ, the genii and saints assets, directly
hinanzuwachsen with her best parts to the inner height of God, the smaller and less
rooted in it like branches into branches and twigs into tribes, and they hang so
indirectly through with that which is the highest in the highest, together.
Thus the deceased geniuses and saints are the true mediator between God and men,
and they are also the ideas of God, partakers of the people they lead to, at the same
time they feel the sufferings, joys and aspirations of the people, and lead them to
God.
Has but the cult of the dead men half twinned with the adoring nature worship in
the origin of religion, half-divided, the rudest peoples have the most to keep the most
educated, the highest of them, and where there'd be today yet one that is not a large
fragment of as their main piece preserved.
And so it shall in each city a temple of their biggest dead give, attached to or
installed in the temple of God, him, however, to let themselves live in the same room
as before Christ with God.
Chapter Seven
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"For now we see through
a glass, darkly, but then
face to face: now I know
it piecemeal,., But then I
shall know it, also I am
known."
I Cor. 13, 12
Man leads here both an outer and an inner life, the first visible and audible in all
views, whether verbal, in writing, to external acts and works, the last only himself
heard in the inner thoughts and feelings. The visible and the sequel is visible to the
outside, easily traceable, the continuation of the invisible itself remains invisible, but
not missing. Rather, at their outer life of man, as its core, the inner continues over the
worldly people, to form the core of the otherworldly.
In fact, what of the people during his life, the survivors run out and feeling, is notthe only thing that emanates from him. So small and delicate a Erzitterung or
vibration is, from a conscious impulse is carried in our heads, the whole game
conscious emotions but is of an inner game worn our head, it can not be extinguished
otherwise than that they in Fort effects of their kind to us and finitely generated
beyond us, we can not trace into the exterior only. Just as the sounds can keep their
game in itself, it is carried beyond it, so little our main and only the next heard of the
lute and the head.
What unspeakably complicated series of waves of high order have the origin in the
games of our heads, like, spread over the coarse lower match what our eyes and earsout there is mutual agreement to comparable fine ripples on the big waves of a pond,
or drawings without thickness over the surface of a carpet dickmaschigen which of
them has the beauty and more important. The physicist but only recognizes and tracks
the play of the waves outside the lower order and does not care about the finer what
he does not recognize. - If he does not recognize it, but he knows the principle, he
may deny the consequence? 3)
3)While one can return the game of nerves to chemical or electrical processes, always will be, if not to see evena game of oscillations last particles therein, but such essential awakened by or have to keep carried thereof, theimponderable a more important role than the may play ponderable. But oscillations can only seemingly
extinguished by spreading into the environment, or, if so, by transfer of their kinetic energy into so-called
tension-setting time going out, but persevere in any form to the law of conservation of energy of a revival.
So exhausted that which is received from the spirits through the Fort effects of their
externally noticeable this life in us, not even their whole existence, but to us
incomprehensible way is the nature of this outer part of her being still an inner, so the
main part of their being. And a man would have done and decided, without ever
having interfered in other people life, he would still persist core way to his inner
being, a future development awaiting he other could not find in this world Variablehis life on a desert island.
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Had the other hand, a child lived only for a moment, it could not die again
forever. The smallest moment of conscious life already suggests a circle of effects to
how the shortest tone that seems extinguished at the moment, in order to propose
such that transmits the sound to infinity near the parties and hearing addition, because
no action is extinguished in itself, and any new evidence in eternity effects of their
kind And so the spirit of the child conscious of this as the beginning of that lonelyheart who is yet to develop further, just different, as if it were done by an already
developed continuously from the beginning.
How, then, man is the only receives its full consciousness in death what he
spiritually begotten in others, he will get his in death only to full consciousness, and
use what he driven into itself. What he collected during his life to spiritual treasures,
which fills his mind what his feeling permeates what created his mind and his
imagination, will be eternal! But the whole context of it remains on this side of dark,
just the thought of having a clear light falls through and illuminated, which is located
on the narrow line of its path, the other remains in the dark. Never the Spirit herebelow all aware of his inner wealth at once, simply by a moment of the same lures to
bring about a new shortcut, it emerges out of the darkness for a moment and then
back again next fall. Thus man is a stranger in his own spirit and wanders around in
it, following the accident or difficulty losing the thread of seeking his way, and often
forgets his best treasures that lie buried away from the glowing trail of thought in the
dark what the Spirit wide plains covered. But at the moment of death where an
eternal night draws the eye of his body, it will begin to dawn in his mind. Since the
center of the inner man will break out to a sun which will illuminate all that is
spiritual in him, and see through the mind's eye along with supernaturalclarity. Everything he forgot here, he will be back, yes he forgot this world only
because it preceded him into the afterlife; collected he finds it again. In that new
general clarity, he will no longer have to search laboriously what he wants to
associate, and cut it into its characteristics, what he wants to divorce, but with an eye
stroke is all that is in itself be seen simultaneously by him in his circumstances of
unity and contradiction of the relationship and the separation of harmony and discord,
not just in one direction of thinking but for all. simultaneously 4) So high hovering
flight and the bird's eye to the slow creep of the blind caterpillar which recognizes
nothing but what touched her crotch carrier, that higher cognition will rise above the
ours. And so his mind, his mind, yes, the whole calculated in this finite building his
spirit will perish in death, with the body of man, as forms in too narrow for his
character, as members who do no more to him a order of things, where it all they
would have individually, tedious, imperfectly create and develop him to have time
just to themselves, look and enjoy. The self of man but is intact in its full expansion
and development exist at that time smashing its forms, and in place of those extinct
lower activity will enter a higher way of life. Anxiety is allayed all the thoughts that
do not longer need to look to find, and not to move to each other to become aware of
their relationship. But for now begins a higher exchange lives of ghosts with ghosts,
how the thoughts together in our minds, run those. Together in the higher spirit that orits all linking center we call God, and our thoughts game itself is just a branch of this
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traffic Since it will require no more language to understand each other, and no eye to
recognize the others, but as in us the idea understands the thoughts and acts on it,
without the intervention of ear and mouth and hand, to connect with him or separates
from him without outside band and without septum, so secretly and intimately
abruptly change the life of the spirit will be with each other. And no it will have some
more hidden in the other. Since old sinful thoughts that crept into the darkness of thespirit here and everything what man wants to cover himself in front of his peers with
a thousand hands, are obvious to all spirits. And only the mind that have been here
quite pure and true, will be able to confront the other without shame in that world,
and who have been misunderstood here on earth, there will find its recognition.
4)Even with approximations to the death in this world (by anesthesia, or in the moment of just threat(drowning, or sleeping guards) are approximations to these spiritual content shining through at once clarity onwhat examples in "Zend-Avesta" III., S . and 27 (Cases in case of imminent drowning) in Fechner Zentralbl.
Naturwiss for. and Anthropology, 1853, pp. 43 and are listed 623rd
And also at the own nature of the mind is at its Selbstdurchschauung perceive any
gap and what is still unfinished, disturbing, discordant remained in this life, and not
just recognize it is these shortcomings, but feel with the same strength of public
feeling, as we our physical infirmity. But in us the idea of the thought purifies himself
from what is false in him, and how the ideas connect through their shared moments to
higher thoughts, and each is complemented by what each is missing, so are also the
spirits found in their mutual transactions in the middle of their progress to
completion.
Chapter Eight
The person does not operate alone spiritually but also materially during his life
with nature.
Heat, air, earth and water penetrate from all sides into it and flow on all sides of it
back, create and change his body, but by that except the people just next to each other
fro, meet in him, cruising, make they have a node that human bodily feeling and
hereby also everything is still more inward than this feeling flush from the feelings ofthe outside world. Only through the windows of the senses he can not from his
physical body to look into the outside world and empathize with small buckets and
how to draw something from it.
But when a man is dying, so will dissolve the fouling of his body that node, and the
spirit, no longer shackled by him will now pour with complete freedom by nature. He
is no longer merely perceive the light and sound waves as they strike his eye and ear,
but as they roll away in the ether and air sea itself no longer feel only the waft of the
wind and the Anwogen of the sea against his in-drenched body but rush themselves in
the air and the sea, not more externally walk in the forest and meadow green, butpenetrate to the forest and meadow feeling in changing people.
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So what's on the lower level him lazily through those mediation him nothing is lost
in the transitions to the higher level, as tools whose limited service he can miss in a
life where he is completely and suddenly wear and feel it all in, just close met
individually and externally. What should we do in the next life or eye and ear carry
over to draw the light and sound from the natives of living nature, since the wave of
our future life with light and sound wave will go into one? But more! The human eye is only a small sun spot of land on the earth and the whole heaven
nothing as bright dots. The human desire to know more of the sky is not met here.
He invented the telescope, thereby increasing the surface area and the capacity of
his eye, in vain, the stars remain dots.
Now he thinks that this world can not afford to get in the afterlife, to satisfy his
curiosity finally the fact that he goes to heaven and sees everything from then
realized what was hidden from his earthly eyes here.
He's right, but he does not thereby get to heaven, that he gets wings to fly from oneto the other planets, or even in an invisible sky above the visible heavens, where
there'd be in the nature of things to the wings, not thus he meets the sky that he is
gradually worn in new births of a stars on the other, not a stork is there to support the
child from star to star, - not by winning his eye, the capacity for the most heavenly
lengths that it is done for the most telescope, the principle of earthly vision will no
longer suffice; - but because he comes to all, that he with the otherworldly conscious
part of the great celestial being, that carries it to the light traffic the other heavenly
beings conscious share gains. A New Look! for none of us here on earth, here on
earth because of our none for the sky is. In heaven, the earth itself floats as large eye,completely immersed in the light of the stars and seas turning round is to receive all
the waves on all sides, the millions and millions of times but crosses and yet does not
interfere. This eye of man will learn once seen in the sky by the waves of his future
life, which it penetrates to the outer waves of the ether that surrounds it, meets and
penetrates him with finest beats through the heavens.
See the Light! And how much the person will have to learn yet after
death! Because he does not like but think he will be great around the celestial clarity,
what the afterlife it provides the means equal to the entry. Also on this side of the
child learns first to see hear, for what it looks initially and hears is misunderstood billis sound, in which no sense at first even just glare, numbness and confusion; nothing
else but like the Beyond the new senses of the new child initially offer. Just what the
man from this life brings, the entire Erinnerungsnachklang all that he has done on this
side, thought to have been, he sees the crossing at once clearly evident, yet he
remains so at first just what he was. Also, no one think that the glory of the Hereafter
is the ignorant, the lazy, the bad get different benefits, as they can feel the discord of
his being finally compels him to do it and thus to reverse its essence. Even in the
present life of man brings an eye to behold the splendor of the heavens and the earth
to hear an ear, the music and human speech to take a mind to make sense of it all,what avails's a fool, the sluggard , the bad?
As the best and highest of this world, even the best and the highest of the hereafter
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is only there for the best and highest, because even understood only by the best and
highest, willed and created.
So might only the higher man of the hereafter, win the understanding of the
conscious movement of the being which carries him to the other heavenly beings, and
even occur as a tool in this traffic with.
If not finally but the whole earth, gradually becoming smaller circles pulling, will
return to the bosom of the sun after eons of years, they once escaped, and will start as
a Sun Life of all earthly creatures, who knows, and what not, that we already know?
Chapter Nine
The spirits are in the third stage of earthly nature, of which humanity itself is a part,live like in a Community body, and they have all the processes of nature the same as
what we now the processes of our body. Her body is the bodies of the second stage of
life embraced as a common mother, even as the second stage encompassed the bodies
of the first.
But only the third stage, each spirit has trained all of the common body to him as
his own part, which he further developed in the earthly realm. What has changed in
the world by one man's life when he had not been there, is his future existence on the
common root of all existence.
In part,'s fixed facilities and stations, partly continuous circling in and striking back
on itself effects, as well as the current body of Fixed and variable from what the
parties to its Anhalt, is.
But now grab all the circles of existence, which carry the life of the otherworldly
spirits, confused, and you ask how it is possible that so countless cross, without
interfering, to err, to confuse.
Ask first, how is it possible that countless wave circles intersect in the same ponds
that countless sound waves intersect in the same air that countless light waves
intersect in the same ether that countless memory waves intersect in the same head,that finally the innumerable circles of life the people who carry their afterlife, already
on this side of cruising, without interfering, to err, and to confuse. Rather, only in a
higher life and activity of the waves, the memories of the other and finally the
otherworldly living takes place.
But what separates the consciousness circles intersect?
Nothing separates them in some detail, where they intersect, they all have some
common, each has it only in other respects than the other, that it separates and
distinguishes them throughout in higher detail. Question again, what wave circlesintersect, difference or retires, not individually, but at least you distinguish them
easily even externally throughout, to be even lighter circles that are internally self-
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conscious, even differentiate itself internally.
Perhaps sometimes you have received from a distant part of the world a letter,
crossed described by length and by way. What can you distinguish between the two
fonts? Only the connection that each one has in himself.Thus the spiritual writings,
with which the world is described in Journal of the cross, and each reads herself as if
she had the place alone, and read at the same time other than those which theycross. Not just two fonts of course, countless cross in the world, but the letter is only
a faint image of the world.
But how can the consciousness preserve its unity in such a large spread its base still
remains the law of the threshold of consciousness still stand? 5)
5)This experiential law of the relationship between body and soul is the consciousness that goes anywhere ifthe physical activity, what it depends on a certain degree of strength, which is called the thresholddecreases. Pursuant now as she spreads out more, they can also easily fall and the consequent impairment
including weakness. Like the whole consciousness has its threshold, which forms the divide between sleep and
waking the whole person, including all special in mind what it is based, that soon it soon emerges that duringwaking in consciousness, or dark depending on the particular activity what it depends, exceeds the threshold or
drops below it special. Comp. (Elements of Psychophysics Section 10 38 39 and 42
Ask first, as it can preserve its unity in the smaller spread of the body, but only the
continuation of the great is. As is your body, your brain is a point? Or is there a center
in the seat of the soul? No. 6) How about now is the soul essence, to make the small
context of thy womb,'s future will be their nature to make the larger of the larger
body. God's Spirit builds even the whole context of the world, - or did you also look
for God in a point? - You will only gain greater part of its ubiquity in the afterlife.
6)Comp. here about the elements Pspchophysik, Chapter 37, and Chapter 26 atomic theory
Worry you, however, that the wave of your future life is no longer enough in its
spread to the threshold, it exceeds this side, as well as the fact that they are not
distributed in an empty world in where they would drop probably irretrievably into
the abyss think but in a world which yours underpinned the same time as the eternal
foundation of God himself, for only on the basis of the divine life, the creature is ableto live at all. 7)
7)To avoid an apparent contradiction to the above observation with the psychophysical theory of mixing shaft
(what to leave the Erluterndste in Wundt's Philos Stud, IV, pp. 204 and 211) made the following remark:.
when the most varied of components type composite pspchophysische life wave of people to fortzubrauchenthis short term, to spread into a world that only contain other types of components, so of course, would be to
assume that it would fall by their spreading among those coming here into consideration mixturethreshold. However, since the psychophysical wave sea in the world contains, among its other components,
such that the life-wave of the people are similar to those, from different height or intensity, even those whichalready exceed the mixture threshold or the same are at hand, and by the zutretenden similar increase only
more so arises as the result of the above consideration only way to something more thorough restore.
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Thus, the wren easily fly on the back of the eagle a mountain peak, to which he
would be too weak, and finally the same from the back of the eagle from the general
air still fly over a little piece. But God is the great eagle like the little birds.
But man can miss after the death of the body, the brain, the so artfully constructed
that carried every movement of his mind, which expanded from the stirrings of the
spirit even further such was in ever greater power and wealth. It was built for free?
Question the plant as it can be without the seed when it bursts the same to grow
into the light, the so artfully built, which further expanded in himself by driving the
inner germ. It was built for free?
But where there is an equally artful construction, such as your brain, which
replaced it in the Hereafter, and where even one who berbte it, but yes to the
afterlife on offer this world.
But is not already your whole body to a greater and higher construction as eye, ear,
brain, not every part? - Sun and unspeakably more about the world offers is whathumanity with State, with science, with art and with traffic is only a part, your little
brain, the part of this part. Look, you want to elevate yourself to a higher view, the
earth is not just another ball out of dry soil, water, air, it is a larger and higher single
creature than you, a heavenly creature, with wunderbarerem life and weaving in their
upper room when you wear in your little brain, so you contribute only a Tiny to their
lives. In vain you will dream of a lifetime for you, if you do not see the life around
you.
What does the anatomist, when he looks into the human brain? a tangle of white
fibers, whose meaning he can not unravel. And what does it in itself? a world of light,sounds, thoughts, memories, fantasies, feelings of love and hate. So you think the
ratio of what you are, outwardly toward the world standing, look at her, and what she
sees in himself, and does not require that both the exterior and interior to see more
similar throughout the world, as in you, the only part of her. And only that you are a
part of this world, you can also a part of what she sees in himself, you see.
And you ask about finally know what our other body we call it, can only awaken
beyond, but after we have on this side of the earthly kingdom driven him out, and he
is now continuing our narrow body?
The saying that this closer asleep, so goes by. Nothing but a case of the same
general rule that extends through the whole this world, proof that it extends even
beyond. You doubters always want only close from this life, so close.
The kinetic energy of consciousness is never created truly new, never goes down,
but, like the body, after which it rests, only their location, shape, distribution way
time and space change, today or only decline to rise tomorrow, or elsewhere, . tonight
or only rise to fall tomorrow or elsewhere 8) In order for the eye guard, you shalt see
with awareness, you have to cut the ear in sleep, so that the inner world of thoughts
awake, allowed to sleep the external senses, a pain at the smallest point can theconsciousness of your soul completely exhausted. The more scattered the light of
attention so the weaker individual is enlightened it, the brighter it is true to a point,
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the more occur every other in the darkness; reflect on something is, abstracting from
others. Your awake today you owe your sleep since yesterday, the deeper you fall
asleep tonight, so tomorrow you will wake up more alert, lively and ever you have
watched so raises deeper you sleep.
8)It is not disputed this depends, the so-called laws of (conservation of energy in the body areas analogous lawwith the same by the basic relationship of the spiritual to the corporeal together somehow without thisconnection has already been made clear, or the law of conservation of consciousness force already
psychophysical would be from the law of conservation of physical strength derived as long as the basic natureof the psycho-physical activity itself is not clear, the law must therefore be for out facts as they follow up,
concluded,., and win, without being exactly proved in full generality, but a probability that, which makes it
suitable apergus as those at this is to be used.
But now the man sleeps on this side basically always just a half sleep, can
reawaken the old man, because even the old is there; until the death of the full sleep,
which can awaken a new one because the old one is no longer there; but the old ruleis still there, calling for a replacement of the old consciousness, and to the new body
as a continuation of the old, including a new consciousness will be there as a
replacement and continuation of the old.
As a continuation of the old! For what can carry the body of the old man nor the
continuation of the same consciousness, which carried the body of the child, of which
he has no atom, also the body of the other world the same consciousness can wear
what was the body of the old man, of the he has no atom. This is the thing that
everyone following the lingering effects of the one who bore the former
consciousness, holding excavated in itself and is thereby built. So it is a principlewhich leaves the life of this world of today and in the morning from this life to the
afterlife to continue. And there can be other than eternal principle of the eternal
continuance of man?
And so do not ask: what does it matter that effects that you witnessed on this side
of the outside world that are beyond you, you should still belong to more than any
others that are beyond you. This makes it that those assumed rather than this from
you. Any cause retains its consequences as a perpetual possession. But basically your
consequences were never gone over you, and they were already on this side of the
unconscious, just awakening to a new consciousness expectant continuation of yourbeing.
Just as no man can ever die, who once lived, he could ever come to life, he would
not have lived before, except that he previously lived not for himself. The
consciousness which awakens the child at birth, is only part of the ever seen before
general divine consciousness together in the new soul of its own. We can of course
follow the vivid consciousness as little force through all the paths and
transformations than the living body strength.
But you worry that human consciousness will, because born out of the generalconsciousness, also elapse again in him, look at the tree. It took many years before
the branches came from the tribe; come once, they do not go back under to him. How
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did the tree grow and develop if it geschhe; also the tree of life in the world but
wants to grow and develop.
After all, this is the great art of the conclusion from this world to the hereafter, not
a reason that we do not know yet of conditions that we do, but from the facts we
know to close on the larger and higher facts of the afterlife and thereby to consolidate
virtually required, hanging on higher points of faith from beneath, to support and dealwith life in vivid terms. Yes, we do not need faith, why support him, but how do it, he
would have no support.
Chapter Ten
The human soul is poured out through his whole body, he immediately falls apart
when they depart from him, but her consciousness of light is now here, now
there.9)
Only just we saw it in the narrow body every now and then hiking, alternatelythe Aug, the ear, the inner and the outer glow to make sense to finally get it all out to
wander in death, such as the one whose little house is destroyed, where he had gone
back and forth long pulls on getting into the distance and a new hike. Death is no
divide between the two lives, but that he can close the scene of the migration
exchange with the other. And so little in the present life, the light of consciousness is
always and everywhere at the same time, where there will be one after another, and
where it can dissipate, it will be in the future life. The venue of the hike is just
unspeakably greater, the possible spreading further that through free and the view
points higher, all the lower of this world among themselves realizing.
9)With scientific prints you will be able to say that consciousness is everywhere and awake, when and where
the underlying physical intellectual, so-called psycho-physical activity that degree of strength, which is calledthe threshold exceeds.(See View Notes.) Thereafter, the consciousness of time and space are located. The peak
of the wave of our psycho-physical activity swings were, from one place to another, bringing the light ofconsciousness his body changes, only that it fluctuates during the life of this always just within our bodies,
even of a limited part of this body, from time to time and in sleep entirely falls below the threshold over which
it rises again in waking Here About cf. Elements of Psychophysics II, Chapter 40 and 41
Self already in this life but we see an exception, in rare cases, wander the light ofconsciousness from the narrow body in the other and return, and message bringing of
what is happening in distant space or, rooted in the broad contexts in further time;
because the length of the future is based on the width of the present. Suddenly opens
a column in the otherwise always locked door between this world and to quickly
close again the door is open in death entirely, and only then should open, never to
close. Also frommts not to look through the gaps previously only. However, the
exception to the rule, this life is just a case of the larger rule of life, which includes
both this world and the hereafter.
It happens that the closer body deep enough asleep to one side to come alive afterthe other beyond its borders in an unusual way, and yet not so completely and deeply,
never to awaken. Or in another body, a point is so abnormally excited to extend an
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increasing effect on the threshold of an otherwise inaccessible distance in the narrow
inside. Begin the miracle of light face, premonitions, the vorbedeutenden dreams;
louder fables, when the worldly life and the life hereafter fables, otherwise mark the
one and sign of the others, but what has sign is there, and what sign has will come.
But there are no signs of this side of healthy living. This world has to build the
body of the Hereafter only for the afterlife, not to see the time of its eyes and ears andlisten. The flower does not thrive, you break up ahead of time. And whether you can
support the belief in the afterlife through faith in his footsteps Into this glow in this
world, so you should not count on him. A healthy faith is based on reason and closes
in on the highest point of healthy living by himself belongs to his health and at the
end of its highest points.
You were meant since then, the slight form in which a dead person appears to you
in remembrance, is merely your inner glow. You're wrong, he's the bodily self is thus
enters conscious way not just to you, but you. The former shape is still his soul dress;
just no longer complains with his former firm body and sluggish strolling with him,
but transparent, easily, the earthly load undressed, in moments now here now there,
the reputation of each following who calls to the dead or of itself to you centering,
aligned then you must think of the dead. Also, you are always the otherworldly
appearance of souls so easy, so disembodied, thought of as independent of space
limitations, and therefore, the rights not intentioned, but hit the right.
Also you probably heard talk of ghostly apparitions. The doctors they are called
fantasies, hallucinations. They are also for the living, but also real phenomena of the
dead, we call it that. For if the weaker of Remembrance in us there are, as it should
not be much stronger corresponding phenomena. So why are still arguing whether
they are one or the other if they are the one and the other at the same time. And why
do you continue before the ghosts fear if you not afraid of the Remembrance in you
that there are already.
But all is not missing the reason. Equal to the called of thyself, or in the context of
your inner life of even quiet and peaceful occurring, helpful because with continued
spinning shapes they come unbidden, you come over with no abwehrbarer strength,
seemingly in front of you, really kicking in you, the fabric of your inner tousling life
rather than continue spinning. A morbid nature of both this world and theHereafter. So should not associate with the living dead. It is already half death of the
living, the dead nearly as much to see as objective as they may look at each other,
therefore the terror of the living from such appearance of the dead, there is also a half
Zurckversinken the dead from the rich to the death into the realm of death, so the
saga - and if not more than Sage? - That only spirits around who are not quite
redeemed, still hanging with a heavy chain to the here and now. To scare the
unfortunates, call 'a better and stronger spirit to help: but he is the best and strongest
mind if all the spirits. Who in his protection you something! Also true the legend that
before the call of God departs every evil spirit.
Meanwhile threatens to fall ill to superstition in this area of mental illness, the
belief itself. The easiest way to protect themselves from the coming of ghosts,'s
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remains, do not come to believe in it, for to believe that they come from, is already,
meet them halfway.
As they like each other even appear, I says. Because the same phenomenon, which
is against the order of this world is only anticipated from the order of the
afterlife. Light, fully, clearly and objectively the inhabitants of the Hereafter will be
released each other in shape, of which we have only a faint accents of a dusky outlinedrawing in the memory of them, because they penetrate each other with all the full
essence, of which only a small part in each of us at the memory penetrates her. Only
that it will require beyond as part of the attention directed at the appearance to have
it.
Now, one may still ask: how is it possible that that permeate so, but appear to be
objectively and limited. But ask first, how is it possible that what the appearance of a
living person enters into yourself and the memory permeates your brain to a dead -
and nothing else but lies your soul in front of it are based, you as illustrative but
objectively, as memory still appears limited. The self is no longer limited effect, the
subject of memory, but you still reflects the limitation of the shape, which they
assumed initially, before. You know not of this world, why, how can you want to
know the afterlife.
And so I say again: do not close for any reason of this world, you do not know, nor
of conditions that you make but by the facts of this world, you know, on the larger
and higher facts of the afterlife. The single circuit can err; also the one we only just
made, so folders you to no detail, and the union of the conclusions in the direction of
what we mainly end and have to call on all conclusion is our faith best support from
below his leadership and upward.
But you Fatest faith equal right from the top, you would fall down easily, the
whole journey of faith, which we put up.
Chapter Eleven
So how easy would be all for the belief that man could only get used to the word
which he has been playing more than a thousand years, that he lives in God and
moves and has to see more than one word. Then belief in God and his own eternallife is only one he sees his own eternal life to eternal life of God duly, and in the
height of his future beyond his present life is only a higher to a lower structure in
God, as he himself has been such in itself, he seizes on the small example in
connection of both the higher and the whole, of which he only the part.
The intuition in you melts away, and the memory rises from on in thee: thy whole
this-worldly view of life melts away in God, and a higher memory life rises from it
on in God, and as the memories in your head pervert the minds of the afterlife in the
divine head. Just a step above the level of the same staircase that leads not to God,
but in God upward, which also has the base and summit itself. As God was with thatempty empty imaginary words, how rich is God with his full senses.
Do not you know how the views of the afterlife is possible in your mind? You only
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know that it really is, but only in a spirit it is possible. So you can easily, ignorant as
it is possible to believe in the reality of something beyond your whole mind into a
higher spirit, you just have to believe that a higher spirit, and that you're in it.
And again, how easy would be all for the faith, when a man could get used to see a
truth in the second words that God lives and moves and has in all. Then it is not a
dead but a living God through the world, from which the human body is its future andthus built a new house of worship hineinbaut.
But if this life-giving faith will come alive?
That he makes alive, will make him alive.
Chapter Twelve
You asked whether after, I replied with the how. Faith saves the question of if, but it
is done, so there is only one answer to it by the how, and the how long is not clear
whether this is not going to stop and to come.
Here, the tree stands, some of which may individually leaf fall, but his reason and
his connection is good and solid. He will always put out new branches and new
leaves will always fall, and he himself will not fall, will drive the beauty of flowers,
and instead rooted in faith, bearing fruit of faith.
Postscript
The first suggestion of the idea set forth in this document, that the spirits of the
dead continue to exist as individuals in the living became to me by a conversation
with my, then in Leipzig, now living in Hall's friends, Professor Billroth. By this idea
partly intervened in a number of related ideas with me, and sometimes of those
awakened, has the same design in the above manner, and extended by a kind of
progress necessary to the idea of a higher life of the spirit in God. Meanwhile, the
author has, as so particularly taken thereof in the philosophy of religion at all in thedoctrine of immortality, one of the persecuted here quite different and more directly
adjoining the Church dogma direction which has paid him even from that basic idea
largely or completely back, so I, by the same creators as I thought it necessary to call,
but no longer dare to call him as their representative. This philosopher's views on the
subject in question will be found in a developed, soon to be expected from the same
work.