Rosicrucian Heritage Magazine - 2011-09 - AMORC

y George F Buletza, FRC
IMMORTALITY
For millennia THE MORTALITY
of the human body has raised questions that
have troubled the minds of many people,
threatening their sense of well-being. In recent decades
theories of immortality have received support by accounts
of near-death experiences, by hypnotic regressions,
spontaneous past-life recalls and spiritualistic experiences.
These accounts are seen by some as a substantiation of
their belief in immortality. But these subjective accounts
are discounted by others. Concepts of immortality may
be attractive, but as long as we live on a mundane plane,
exoteric evidence remains inconclusive. So, as we don’t
really know the answer, we must approach this question
with an open mind.
Rosicrucian investigations neither confirm nor
deny the idea of immortality. On the other hand, these
studies do tell us much about ourselves, our desires and
our perceived “need” for immortality. For example, many
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