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The Archetype
When a microcosm, tied to the Wheel of Birth and Death, prepares for a new manifestation in matter, he forms an archetype within the limits of his karma, a matrix in which a certain vitality is contained for the future earthly existence. The force that flows from the archetype represents the potentialities of life. When this force is used up, when the '"candle of life" has burned away, death inevitably follows. If a rational use is made of this force and a correct attitude of life is observed, life will last longer, within the framework of the potentialities which have been granted. In case of a stupid, irrational use, life will be shorter.
If a person is forcibly removed from his body, as happens during war or as the result of an accident, it may be that death coincides with the normal death of the archetype, but it can still be premature death, striking while the archetype still has some vitality left. In this case, reincarnation follows promptly, within the vitality of the old archetype, and the new personality will usually die in childhood, or at least at an early age. This procedure is necessary because of the existence of the old archetype, whose remaining vitality must be used up.
Suicide
When death is caused by suicide, the consequences are terrible. The archetype is still fully active, but its potential is no longer used, due to the loss of the material body. The suffering will be horrible and without any possibility of release through reincarnation; there is no chance of entering the sphere of transition; one cannot achieve purification and there is no possibility of elevation to a heavenly sphere. Consciousness is all there is; mental and moral experience of the deed repeated over and over again; terror and remorse without relief. The only possibility of salvation is that relatives or friends, prompted by love, bring about a binding with the poor wretch, willing to take upon themselves his or her rejected karmic burden. Suicide always increases suffering on earth.
Why do we mention all this? Because many earth-bound spirits incite people to commit suicide and murder and all kinds of other horrible crimes. Their motives will now be abundantly clear: the forces which the archetype continues to radiate also contain a constant flow of ether vibrations, transmuted on behalf of the material body which no longer exists. What a splendid source and supply of nourishment for vampires...
Now we have arrived at the question: how can we rid ourselves of mediumship? How can satanism be fought? How can we cure humanity of this scourge? The answer is: by consciously changing and ennobling our way of life, from below upwards; by self-freemasonry, free from all authorities; by guarding against persuasion in whatever form and by rejecting all spiritualistic influences; by striving for first-hand Knowledge in an objective attitude of life; by fundamental reversal and by letting ourselves be guided by an ever-growing, all-embracing love for mankind, knowing that "though we have all things and have not universal Love, we have nothing and are nothing".
From "Spiritualism" - Elementary Philosophy of the Modern Rosycross - Jan van Rijckenborgh
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Perhaps the foregoing may offer some insight into such matters as the reasons behind sudden infant death syndrome, or fatal childhood diseases. Life is a continuity. There is no "death". Because man looks at life from the outside-in, he sees only tragedy and despair. When we gain much-needed insight such as that offered above and endeavor to look at life objectively, we begin to see the workings of the Plan.
In the matter of suicide, Max Heindel once said, "there is no skipping school". The suicide attempts to get away from life, only to find himself alive as ever and in a much more miserable state. The fact that so many are urged to consider and execute this rash decision by unseen denizens of the lower realms of the reflection-sphere only adds to the ignominy of the deed.
Man in his relentlessly mis-guided self-focus, sees only one side of the coin when it comes to explaining his existence. It is imperative that we obtain insight into the workings of the Invisible Worlds in order to craft a full, complete picture of how things are and how things come to be. Only then can we accurately identify the forces that are arrayed against us and take rational, informed measures to overcome them.
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