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DEATH OF THE FORM
A symbol of the withdrawal of life from the form
in which it has been manifesting its qualities. All vehicles of a
monad of life die after a period, and are dissipated into their
primary atoms, but life and consciousness endure for ever, as they
are aspects of the eternal Spirit. The human body yields up its life
only in relation to its organising human monad which has withdrawn
itself; but the lives of its molecules remain, and these set up the
changes called decomposition.
“When we know what form really is, we know what is life and what is
death.' "Thus nothing is ever annihilated but the accidental, the
exterior, material form; both matter and the substantial form, i.e.
spirit, being eternal" (Bruno). - J. L. MCINTYRE, Giordano Bruno,
pp. 160, 165.
"There is in ever living organism a law of Death. We are wont to
imagine that Nature is full of Life. In reality it is full of Death.
One cannot say it is natural for a plant to live. Examine its nature
fully, and you have to admit that its natural tendency is to die. It
is kept from dying by a mere temporary endowment, which gives it an
ephemeral dominion over the elements-gives it power to utilise for a
brief span the rain, the sunshine, and the air, Withdraw this
temporary endowment for a moment and its true nature is revealed.
Instead of overcoming Nature it is overcome. The very things which
appeared to minister to its growth and beauty now turn against it
and make it decay. Life is merely a temporary suspension of these
destructive powers; and this is truly one of the most accurate
definitions of life we have yet received-the sum total of the
functions which resist death.' - H. DRUMMOND, Natural Law, etc., pp.
103-4.
The above presents only a negative view of life. Life is directive
agency from higher planes, guiding growth according to specific
patterns of animal, vegetal, and mineral forms. The withdrawal of
the directive agency is death of the form.
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See Also
ASTRAL
BIRTH (forms)
Devas (builders)
MENTAL
MONAD of form
SIMILITUDES
SIVA
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