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Note to reader: this is the third part of a trilogy of personal siginficance hence why the entries are slightly bloated. ‘Brevity is the soul of wit’ and I will exercise it more from the next entry. Thank you for your indulgence
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All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small long for survival-this is how they thrive- not according to Nietzsche who said that all things must yearn for destruction of self otherwise they grow stagnant and die. Is it a coincidence that one of the pioneers of electricity, Nikola Tesla, was born during a thunderstorm? Yes it is.
Death plays a prominent role in many theological practices, changing as the conception of God is changed, and yet its nature is not known, “…either death is a state of nothingness… like the sleep of him who is undisturbed …even the great king, will not find many such days or nights…or…there is a…migration of the soul from this world to another.” (Socrates) however, as with all things finite, there are rules that are inherent and I Ching, science et al are attempts to understand and control that which cannot be understood or controlled.
Pythagoras spent many years in China and there he learnt of Buddhism (he then spread it to the rest of Asia meaning that Buddhism not from India and China is actually Pyrrhonism, a Greek derivative) and the logical foundation that only a few were good or bad enough for paradise/hell and most were reborn appealed to the Greek philosophers.
On Yom Yippur it is inscribed into the book of life who will live and die, however God may be swayed by prayer but before one can go to God and repent one must first, on Erev Yom Kippur, find forgiveness in the mortal realm.
The ancient Egyptians believed in an afterlife and lived to prepare for it, however, the exact nature of the art of mummification was passed down by the oral tradition and any insight into the exact nature of theory behind it was probably lost when the library at Alexandria was razed to the ground, along with, now lost, Plato, Aristotle and, possibly, the original old testaments explaining the exact nature of them in context.
For many it is considered to be glorious to die in battle. In the Iliad, Achilles wants to die in battle so that his name will echo in eternity, however when, in the Odyssey, Odysseus comes upon his former comrade in the Hades, Achilles rather bitterly tells Odysseus that there is no glory in death- in death there is only death.
To be reborn, to change, requires great personal strength (‘You are fighting for the truth, and that’s why you are alone…and the strong must learn to be lonely’- Arthur Miller) and when one transmigrates/ transfigures one must do so without any residual harmful emotions that may weigh one down and prevent either the ‘migration of the soul from this world…or…to another sleep like the sleep of him who is undisturbed even by the sight of dreams’.
However, Immanuel Kant said that one does not act unless one is backed into a corner and Kafka said ‘there is a point of no return and this is the point that must be reached’ for only then can one move on to the next phase of their existence. Ghosts linger as they cannot move on or are not allowed to move on but time, as the ocean after the great storm, leaves no trace and one must not fear this step but rather embrace it and transcend where they are now and move onto the next stage of being, in Scientological terms going clear or in Buddhist terms reach enlightenment, to put the soul ‘into the wind’ (The Rig Veda (Hindu Scriptures))
Evolution takes place on an atomic level and takes place during the gestation ergo that what came before will be different than what comes afterwards (yes folks, the egg came before the chicken) so one must pass through what one is to reach the next stage of one’s being.
‘till next time!
thegreaterfool2016 