The Cosmic Revolution

‘No man is an island’. Like it or not, we are all connected by the web of life. Though we often imagine ourselves to be separate and independent from one another, our thoughts and feelings, our attitudes and emotions, affect our fellow human beings in subtle ways, even though we may not be consciously aware of it. This is true, not only of those who are alive in the visible, material world, but also of those who have died and whose subtle bodies are therefore in the process of dissolution in the domains on yonder side of the veil. And, among human beings who, whether through igno­rance or self-will, seek to maintain the I-central self, this fact has some rather serious consequences, as we hope to show in this exploration.

To do this, we first need to remind ourselves about the cycle of birth and death, and how it works. As we explained earlier, the etheric or vital body is part of the fourfold personality system of the human being. It is because of the vital body that the whole material organism can work and the indi­vidual can think and feel.