Dictionary of all Scriptures & Myths

BIRTH AND DEATH OF FORMS

Human birth is the entrance of the ego with its qualities into a new body, or vehicle of consciousness, while death is the exit of the ego from a body of any age. The first implies the out-breathing of the spirit and personality into material forms on the mental, astral, and physical planes, while the latter implies the inbreathing of the same from out of the forms which then die and decay.

The life manifest in forms is not an element existing on the plane of the forms, but is an influence coming down from the plane next above the form-plane. Life apparent on the physical plane evidences a directive mental agency operating on the astral plane. The living human body derives its nourishment from the physical plane, but its life relates to the patterns and order of growth on the astral and higher planes; these agencies direct the bioplasts in the building of the organisms.

Death implies cessation of direction from higher planes of the lower forces in forms.

See Also

ASTRAL
CREATION
DEVAS (builders)
FORMS
MAN BORN
MENTAL
MONAD OF FORM
PROTOTYPES
SIMILITUDES