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The Cyclic Process of Spiritual Embodiment - 3
The successive relationships between
a spiritual Quality and a series of human persons
The psychic entity surviving the death of the physical body operates in terms of collective
psychism, and when communicating to living persons addresses them (via the
concretizing, culture-conditioned mind of a psychically sensitive intermediary) in terms of
their collective, culture-defined consciousness. However, when a person has become
strongly individualized during a lifetime, the character of his or her individuality persists
in the period after death. Also, the individual may have been able to reach beyond the
individualistic state before dying; he or she would have performed the rite of passage at
the Gate of Silence as Illumined Man, or at least as a partially illumined consciousness
aware of the meaning of Wholeness, and either utterly devoted to the creative God (the
One in the beginning) or self-dedicated to the service of the Pleroma, the "White Lodge" of
Illumined Beings. Other possibilities more difficult to define may also occur.
A human being having become a truly autonomous, self-reliant, and responsible
individual person, at least mostly free from the dictates of biology and culture, has to be
more or less consciously related to the principle of individualization — to the lowest of the
components of the triune spiritual entity. His or her lower mind must have at least
attempted to reflect the archetypal mind and to perform the dharma formulated by the
latter. The ideity field must be operative, and a link must have formed to serve as a
magnetic-spiritual channel of communication between the lower and higher mind and
theoretically between the principle of desire (kama) and the spiritual Quality infused with
divine Compassion.
Even so, this link (presumably antakarana in Sanskrit) is not permanent. It can be
broken temporarily or permanently if the power of some intense desire leads the person to
indulge in violent or destructive acts dictated by anger, jealousy, hatred, ruthless
ambition, or devastating lust. If, however, the link is strong and operative at death, all that
was spirit-oriented, truly compassionate, and dharma-fulfilling during the life span is
"taken up" by the spiritual entity along the channel of communication. What is so taken up
represents the spiritual harvest of the personal life. It is absorbed and assimilated by the
spiritual entity and becomes part of the contents of the permanent aspect of the ideity field
(karana sharira), the definitive "body of individuality."
In most instances, however, "something" remains in the psychic world after death.
These psychic remains become increasingly subjective as time goes on — a time not
measurable in objective years based on regular motions of celestial bodies (and, more
recently in science, of atomic particles). This "something" is basically what is left of the
energy of desire (kama). But what can desire mean in a predominantly and increasingly
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