This little book should start you to question about all that we have been
taught and learned about Death and After.
A Little Book to "Lighten Our
Darkness"
by Geoffrey Farthing
When We Die by Geoffrey Farthing
PREFACE
It is generally assumed that very little is known about what happens when we
die. There are numerous
accounts from spiritualist sources but they are not consistent among themselves
in important detail. All
religions have some teaching on the subject, but it is usually unspecific or
incomplete, and often not
convincing, especially to those of us of an enquiring mind. The account given in
this book, even if
regarded as only a theory based on a number of basic postulates, is at least
reasonably complete and, if
these postulates are accepted, credible. Some of them are confirmed by our
common experience: for
example, the cyclic nature of Nature's operations - days and nights, the seasons
of the year. When used
in the context of life and death, they certainly provide us with considerable
food for thought.
It is claimed by Those who know that these postulates are facts. The idea that
they are indeed facts and
that they can be known appears more and more feasible as we begin to see
something of the whole
picture presented in this book. Broadly, the claim that there can be such
knowledge is based on the
tradition that there are men who possess it. It is posited that there are,
beyond the human kingdom,
evolutionary stages attainable by all of us, in time. Progress into these higher
stages will, however, not be
physical but subjective, that is, it will be by means of inner faculties not yet
active within most of us at
present. These faculties reach a point where an individual so developed is able
to perceive the inner
workings of Nature. This is not psychism but spiritual vision, something quite
different from normal
clairvoyance. By its means, even the thoughts and emotions of others become
perceptible. These are the
internal subjective activities that it is said we indulge in, although to a much
lesser degree, after death,
when we are in a corresponding subjective state. Normally in our daily lives our
thoughts and emotions
are quite private to ourselves, but this is not so to these spiritually
developed individuals. They are known
traditionally by various names: in this book the terms Adepts, Initiates,
Masters or Masters of Wisdom are
used.
To be more specific about the degree of their attainment, it is recognized that
they are men who have
worked out through many lives all the defects, deficiencies and limitations of
the personal man. As we
shall see, man has a divine spiritual component to his nature, such that when he
can function
consciously at that level he not only knows his own divinity (God) but also
becomes virtually omniscient
relative to even the highest genius in ordinary humanity. This omniscience
extends into the inner realms
of Nature. It is here that, to some extent, we ourselves are, not only in normal
thought but also in the
after-death states. The Adepts can function consciously in these realms and
therefore know the states
and activities in them of those we call the dead. Quoting one of the Masters, a
little out of context:
We tell you what we know, for we are made to learn it through personal
experience.
