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Index
Introduction
1. Overcoming the Abyss
2. The Life of the Dead
3. Recovering the Connection
4. The Presence of the Dead
5. The Blessings of the Dead
6. Works of Art, Acts of Grace
7. How the Dead Influence the Living
8. The Dead Are Always with Us
9. Uniting with the Universal Spirit
10. The Feeling of Community and the Experience of Gratitude
11. Trust in Life and the Rejuvenation of the Soul
12. The Language of the Heart
13. Memento Mori
14. First Experience with the Dead
15. An Example of Working with the Dead
16. Advice on Meditation
17. The Importance of Self-Knowledge in the Life After Death
18. Meditations
Coda: The Dead Speak
Acknowledgments
Further Reading
To the left of the House of Hades you will find a spring. And, beside it, a white cypress. Do not ap
Before we had our becoming Here, we existed There, human beings other than now, some of us gods; we
our one home and that we are immortal. We are at home in the universe. The task was to connect heave
We seem to give them back to you 0 God who gave them to us. Yet as you did not lose them in giving,
for body and soul. This did not mean, however, that the conviction that the dead needed the living l
The first movement of the relation between the living and the dead culminated around the turn of the
The first phenomena-various noises, displacements of objects, and so forth-were produced in December
That is one side of the story. The other side is that it was gradually noticed that the phenomena oc
As, under the circumstances, the "Spiritualists" could not be undeceived as to the source of their i
In other words, without entering into details of esoteric history, the suggestion (confirmed by Rudo
Whatever interpretation one puts on these facts, however, several things remain clear. Spiritualism,
filled with materialistic thinking, we are like a void to them: nothing. Nowadays, many souls are cu
This is a legend-Robert Hamerling, the Austrian poet, retold it.2
Thus we notice the following. Completely materialistic souls who lose all sense of the suprasensory
According to a biblical saying, the angels hide their faces so they will not see the mysteries of bi
Until a certain moment, the Christ being was in the sphere of the Sun. His throne was there. Then he
Perhaps an example from clairvoyant observation will help you understand this. More than ten years a
This individual possessed not only enthusiasm for what we could give her in the early stages of sp
ceded, to our great delight, by Children of Lucifer by our highly respected friend Edouard Schure.
For example, a few months ago we lost a very dear friend when he left the physical plane.4
about this. Lucifer and Ahriman are in any case higher beings than we are. Lucifer can be described
Focusing, concentrating the forces of the soul in this way is crucial. And regular training, often i
know-and this must be clear from the last three lecturesl-
instance when we die or in higher states of meditation, we are one with the outer world and live in
have grasped a very significant concept, one constantly needed by those who aspire to become conscio
There is a second way to find common ground with the dead, which I spoke of last year.'
It depends on noticing the finer, more intimate connections that arise in our lives. I gave an exa
This is because between death and rebirth we pass through states that are very different from our li
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