The Fate of Mankind
Chapter 26
Natural death as an event of light
When death occurs in a natural way it is, in reality, an event of light about which there is every possible reason to rejoice.
All that has happened is that the so-called "dead" person has been freed from an obsolete or outworn body that was only a shadow of what it had once been and through which his experience of the plane of existence in question could likewise be of course only a reflection of its original purpose, indeed, sometimes even only an experience of twenty to twenty-five per cent instead of one hundred per cent.
To mourn such an event, to wish that some being should continue experiencing such an existence is of course in reality to wish evil upon that being, but this must of course be excused because the beings concerned do not know what has actually happened.
They have of course no self-experienced or realistic knowledge of the fact that the "dead" being has five other bodies at his disposal, and that one of these at the time of natural death will always be so far advanced that it will be able to promote or sustain the consciousness after death.