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112 The Kabbalah ofthe Golden Dawn
The body of Joseph was never under the power of the
impure spirit although his soul (Neschamnah and
Ruach) had left him when he had not yet entered the
Holy Land.
Besides the example of the body of Joseph, we also have hard physical
evidence of this situation occurring in some Catholic saints, where
decomposition does not occur. The soul, or shell of it, remains (for us
mere mortals) in the body till the moment of death for this is the sum
total of the personality and it must have the three phases functioning correctly
for it to function at all. Since the Zelem has gone, the energy for
this is drawn from the shell of the Neschamah, which has stored power
prior to the death just for this purpose, before the Zdem withdraws.
Without it, the body would not be able to function through any of the
senses. In the Talmud are listed in excess of 900 different kinds of death,
from the easiest to the most painful.
The Yechidah has, before death, certain functions to carry out and
these are done in the world of Briah. Some of these functions are preparatory
and depend on the type of life lead by the individual. The Yechidah
must also find a place for the Ruach, and this level or place is determined
by the Ruach's actions during the previous life on earth. For we are told
in the Zahar 106 that if the Neschamah is prevented from attaining the
place set aside for it, then the Ruach and Nephesch cannot enter the
Garden of Eden. It must then roam the various planes and experience further
suffering by observation until the Most High has considered that it
can then enter its abode, which of course opens the door for the Ruach,
as well, to rest in the world of Yetzirah. Although the Zahar is not clear on
this point, the three phases of the soul can be considered to occur in the
Gehinnon (a type of Hell associated with the Catholic concept ofPurgatory).
It is in cases like this that supernatural occurrences of the most
unpleasant kind occur. For Job 25:22 says:
But flesh upon him shall have pain and his soul within
him shall mourn.
105 Vol. 3, folio 141b.
106yol. 3, folio 141a.