Daily Meditation: Saturday, July 29, 2000

It is said that some magicians and sorcerers are able to …

07/29/2000

It is said that some magicians and sorcerers are able to bring the dead back to life. These are in fact not truly resurrections: these sorcerers use certain methods they know to call up terrestrial or subterranean entities, which they introduce into the corpse in order to bring it to life. It is not the spirit of the deceased that returns, but other entities, which the sorcerers manage to make enter the body through all kinds of conjurations and which stay there for a time. All those who are said to have been brought back to life were in fact not dead, even if they were thought to be so, because their heart had stopped. Death does not occur when the heart stops beating, but when the heart is no longer warm. To stop breathing does not mean that death automatically follows. So long as the heart is warm, a person can be brought back to life with vigorous massage and other methods of care, or even with the methods of divine magic. But as soon as the heart is no longer warm and the silver cord tying the physical body to the etheric body and the astral body is cut, nothing can be done to bring back life.