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either take or leave. Where he fails to use his opportunities,
the life, as it were, runs into a blind alley, and
terminates shortly afterward.
That, however, is not usually the case in an accident, but
there may be certain reasons which make it desirable that
the man should be cast out of his body in a violent manner.
He is then in the same position as all others when they have
passed out he commences his ; Purgatorial existence at once.
The case of the victim of murder, like the case of the
suicide, is different. Man, on account of his divine nature,
is the only being who has the prerogative of causing dis-
order in the scheme of his unfoldment, and as he may end
his own life by an act of will, so may he also end the life
of a fellow creature before its time has come. The suffer-
ing of the suicide would also be the suffering
of the mur-
dered, for the archetype of his body would keep on gather-
ing material which it would be impossible for him to assimi-
late ; but in his case, the intervention of other agencies pre-
vent the suffering and he will be found floating about in his
desire body, in a comatose state, for the length of time that
he would ordinarily have lived. If the murderer is brought
to justice, as we say, and suffers capital punishment, the
magnetic attraction will bring him together with his victim,
who will constantly remain before his gaze, and that
is really a much more severe punishment than any which
we could mete out to him ; but the victim knows naught of
the presence of its slayer.