WHEN THERE IS FEAR OF DEATH.
Whereas I was blind, now I see, and I know there is no death.
I see order where before was chaos.
I see ascension into everlasting life where before was descent into death.
I see birth, a becoming, not a ceasing to be.
I see a Great Pulse which beats everywhere in nature and which is Life.
I see my own unity with this pulse and that it fills me more and more abundantly with inflowing, invigorating Life.
I feel this inflow now. It thrills me into new perception.
I am laid bare to myself.
The veil of the temple is rent in twain.
I stand before it awed and mystified no longer.
All graves give up their dead unto me. I have a right to