It was only by the concept of sin that natural death became logical to the primitive mind. Sin was the transgression of taboo, and death was the penalty of sin. [1] Death was feared because death meant the liberation of another ghost from its physical body. [2]
A house in which death had occurred was usually destroyed; if not, it was always avoided, and this fear prevented early man from building substantial dwellings. [3] Death was added to the long list of unexplained phenomena. [4]
The shamans believed that the spirits caused disease by enticing the soul out of the body and if it failed to return, death occurred. They also believed that it was because of witchcraft, thus necessitating the execution of the witch responsible therefor. [5]
Adjuster departs for Divinington after destruction of mind circuits. [6] Advanced mortals are exempted from death and they are translated directly from the life in the flesh to the morontia existence. [7] When we finish our earthly career, our body remains on the planet of our birth. [8]
After our death, our identity and the morontia entity of the human soul are faithfully conserved by the destiny guardian, that is our real you, except the identity of continuing existence represented by the departing Adjuster and the actuality of personality. [9] It would be decidedly helpful if we mortals could only learn to view natural death with something of more cheerfulness and lightheartedness. [10]
It is easy to die in the line of physical battle when our courage is strengthened by the presence of our fighting comrades, but it requires a higher courage to lay down our life calmly and all alone for the love of a truth enshrined in our heart. [11] To the mortal consciousness there is no lapse of time after death; the resurrection of life follows the sleep of death as of the same instant. [12] There is no death on Paradise an no transition sleep. [13]
Death happens when mind ceases to function as an intelligent mechanism, about the time that the measurable brain energies cease their rhythmic vital pulsations. [14]
The guardian of destiny proceeds to the first mansion world as soon as the pilot light disappears in the human mind, the spirit luminosity that the seraphim associate with the presence of the Adjuster. [15] The reflective phenomenon may occurs just prior to physical death and the human mid seems to visualize something of the form of the attending angel. [16]
When we pass through the portal of death we stand in the immediate presence of judgment, face to face with the facts of a new dispensation of service in the eternal plan of the infinite Father. [17]
Between the time of planetary death or translation and resurrection on the mansion world, mortal man gains absolutely nothing aside from experiencing the fact of survival. [18] Death is only the beginning of an endless career of adventure, an everlasting life of anticipation, an eternal voyage of discovery. [19] Death is, ordinarily, a part of life. [20] Mortal death is a technique of escape from the material life in the flesh. [21]
The second advent of Michael on earth is an event of tremendous sentimental value but it is of no immediate moment because deatch precipitates man to events which lead to this same Jesus. [22]
If and when mortal man has finally rejected survival, if Adjuster and seraphim concur in, and if Censors and their reflective associates have verified these findings, the rulers of Orvonton order the spiritual or final death. [23] Adjuster proceeds to bosom of Father upon death. [24] Adjuster is released after rejection of survival by the mortal associate; however the duties of the seraphim stay. [25]
Inescapable death can come only after self-concepts presume fully to displace the governing power of the central spirit nucleus, thereby disrupting the cosmic scheme of personality identity. [26]
When a personality is nonsalvable the guardian angel responds to dispensational roll call, but Adjuster makes no answer, and that constitutes cessation of creature existence. [27] Jesus warned of spiritual doom to the chief priests and religious leaders of his time. [28] Man’s final doom is not sealed until he has lost the power to choose the Father’s will. [29]