Death--and After?

self with the Immortal TriadIn esoteric and Theosophical traditions, this refers to the three highest, eternal aspects of the human spirit—Spirit, Intuition, and Mind—which survive the death of the physical body., and rises above the body and its passions into a pure mental and moral life; then he learns that the conquered body cannot hold him prisoner, and he unlocks its door and steps out into the sunshine of his true life. So when Death unlocks the door for him, he knows the country into which he emerges, having trodden its ways at his own will. And at last he grows to recognise that fact of supreme importance, that “Life” has nothing to do with body and with this material planeThe physical world or the level of existence perceived by our five senses, often considered the most limited or "lowest" level of reality in spiritual philosophy.; that Life is his conscious existence, unbroken, unbreakable, and that the brief interludes in that Life, during which he sojourns on Earth, are but a minute fraction of his conscious existence, and a fraction, moreover, during which he is less alive, because of the heavy coverings which weigh him down. For only during these interludes (save in exceptional cases) may he wholly lose his consciousness of continued life, being surrounded by these coverings which delude him and blind him to the truth of things, making that real which is illusion, and that stable which is transitory. The sunlight ranges over the universe, and at incarnationThe process of a spiritual being or soul taking on a physical body of flesh. we step out of it into the twilight of the body, and see but dimly during the period of our incarcerationThe author uses 'incarceration' (imprisonment) as a play on 'incarnation,' suggesting that being in a physical body is a form of spiritual jail.; at Death we step out of the prison again into the sunlight, and are nearer to the reality. Short are the twilight periods, and long the periods of the sunlight; but in our blinded state we call the twilight life, and to us it is the real existence, while we call the sunlight Death, and shiver at the thought of passing into it. Well did Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) was an Italian Dominican friar and philosopher known for his theories on the infinite universe and the plurality of worlds. He was burned at the stake for heresy, but is treated here as a central teacher of hidden wisdom.Giordano Bruno, one of the greatest teachers of our Philosophy in the Middle Ages, state the truth as to the body and Man. Of the real Man he says: