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Be Not Afraid ResurrectionIt is as if the dying one is standing on the threshold ofeternity. Moments like these hint at the immortality ofthe soul – and the beauty that is still there in the mostexhausted, decrepit body.Poet William Blake, who was captivated by thethemes of heaven, hell, time, and eternity throughouthis life, said that to him dying would be no more than“moving from one room to another.” According to hiswife, this confidence remained with him in his finalhours. He spent them lying in bed, weak but joyous,and singing one song after another.The philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, who died atforty-three, met death with similar joy – and with thecertainty that it was not just an end, but a beginning.His nephew wrote:Never have I seen the spirit break through the earthlyhusk and impart to it such a glory…He took my hand inboth of his – how small they were and thin and palelytransparent – and said, “Thank you for coming, and nowfarewell.” But these simple words were accompanied bya look the match of which I have never seen. It shoneout from a sublime and blessed splendor that seemedto me to make the whole room light. Everything wasconcentrated in those eyes as the source of light and1