As the organs or bodies that appear in the subconsciousness are created realities built up of energy, substance or matter, they are, like all other created realities, subject to obsolescence, wear and tear, mutilation and destruction. When one of these bodies either, in a natural way, becomes obsolete or worn out or, in an unnatural way, is through injury in such a state that it can no longer maintain its interaction with the other bodies, it is released from these. This release is in turn identical with what we call a process of death. When this release is completed and the connection of the concerned body with the I is totally severed, the same body becomes identical with a corpse.
      Of death-processes the terrestrial human being still knows only the one that releases the physical body from the I, and of corpses only the corpse of the physical body. But something similar to a certain degree happens to the other bodies.
      This separation of bodies occurs according to eternal laws and so can take place only when the body in question becomes unfit for use in the interplay with the other bodies. The I, by virtue of the same laws, becomes thereby able to initiate an incipient building up of a new body of the same matter and in contact with its upward evolution. During this process it thus experiences life by virtue of the other bodies. When the body that is under construction has reached a certain level, the beginning of its mission is realised in the form of a birth-process. And "the I" thereby finds itself reborn once again in the plane of existence in question, but in a new and improved body. The eternal existence of all living beings is thus identical with a continual rebirth into a new and more perfect form of existence on the plane in question. As the terrestrial human being still knows only his physical body and therefore feels one with this, he must of necessity become the victim of the illusion that death is an annihilation of his existence or a total cessation of life. But we have here seen that every living being, thanks to "the I" and its superconsciousness, is an eternal imperishable reality, that death in the absolute sense is illusory, and that only life exists.