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For �to die� means, for the soul, to live here on earth; �death� means the soul�s
life here in the flesh; and the dead is a term denoting those alive here in
the mortal body!
If the body was the home of the soul in its condition of �death,� then it was the
grave, the tomb, the sarcophagus, the sepulcher, the mummy-
case of the soul. This life, they said, was the soul�s �death,� as, conversely, the
soul�s free life in the higher worlds was the body�s death.
In coming to earth the divine spirit exchanged a very high and blessed potential
life for a very poor actual one.
It suffered the loss of a whole superior dimension of consciousness. In the realms
of disembodiment, consciousness�free of the trammels of the flesh�functions at a
level one full degree higher than that which it can experience through the
comparatively sluggish instrumentality of the brain.