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EOSICRUCIAN PHILOSOPHY
there he would not be materialistic at all, for when the
spirit arrives in that high region, it is not under the delu-
sions which sometimes envelop it here in this material
world. Each and every one knows himself as a spiritual
being and feels the memory of this earth life as we feel a
bad dream. The spirit, upon entering that world, wakes up
to its own true nature in any case.
QUESTION No. 57.
Do we recognize loved ones who have passed out through
the gate of death?
Answer: Yes, we certainly do. When a man passes
out of this body, he is exactly the same as he was before.
There is no difference whatever, except
that he has no
physical body; he sees himself i-n the Desire World, and as
he retains in his consciousness a picture of himself as he
looked here, this desire body will at once take the shape
possessed by the physical body, so that any one who had
known him in earth life will also know him when he has
passed over into the beyond. Besides, it may be well to
add that there is no transforming power in death that man
is also mentally and morally the same person. We often