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ROSICRUCIAN PHILOSOPHY
such instances to draw to themselves material so that they
could be seen by the little ones. Those whom we call dead
do not usually go away from the house where they have
lived until quite a long time after the funeral. They
stay in the familiar rooms and move about among us,
although they are unseen by us. Of course, when their
time comes to go into the First Heaven, they do not remain
any longer in our houses, but very often they visit them.
When in time they enter the Second Heaven, they are no
longer conscious of this physical sphere
having homes, or friends, or relatives ; they
in the sense of
are then rather
to be looked upon as nature forces, for the time being, for
they work upon the earth and humanity in the very same
manner as the nature forces who do not take human'
embodiment.
Thus it is perfectly true that they watch over their
loved ones for a long time after they have passed out, and
it has been often noted by persons attending the death of
a mother whose children had passed out, perhaps a num-
ber of years before, that at fne time of dying she would
see the children around her bed and exclaim : "Why, there
is Johnny, and what a big boy he has grown to be," and
so on. The people around the bed would probably think
that a hallucination, but it is not, and it will be noted that
a certain phenomenon always attends those visions, namely,
when a person dies there comes over him a darkness which
he feels descending upon him. Many persons pass out
without again seeing the Physical World. That is the
change from our light
vibrations to the vibrations of the
Desire World, and is similar to the darkness that spread
over the earth at the time of the crucifixion.
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With other
people it happens that the darkness lifts after a moment
and then the person is clairvoyant, seeing both the present