A Perspective On Death

FRI., DEC. 16, 1983, 6:05 AM
FARM, KITCHEN TABLE

You just have finished a rather satisfying class dealing with death and the life that contrasts, and you are even now considering how the next such experience can be a better one. One of My recommendations is to give more continuing emphasis to your concept of perspectives on death, and, particularly, to the notion of combinations which shall be reality for different persons. Hear, o son, as I review the perspective I would have you hold… and describe, when conditions are right.

One of your “pure” perspectives is the Christian, and it would seem appropriate for Me, the Holy Spirit of the Lord God Who was (and is) in Jesus the Christ, to tell you to hold to that one and that one only, as I would tell all of My disciples and servants. If that were the case, the Teaching would be over quickly, and I would have wasted an education opportunity, relatively speaking. You suspect that I have something else to tell you, however, and… you suspect rightly. This is NOT the perspective I would have all Christians hold, but, as you know, I am not troubled by the diversity I value and encourage.

Most fundamental to the perspective I would have you hold, of course, is knowledge that I am the Creator of life… yea, even Am Life itself. I create many forms of life, but all life is imbued with spirit, even as spirit is manifested in many ways. You are part of My human creation in the earth, of which there is much variety, in body, mind, and spirit. You are part of a particular culture, with certain perceptions of life in this earth, but you do not share all of the perceptions that are generally held among middle-class Americans.

Your Christian perspective must be affected by the knowledge, that I have given you, that life continues after bodily death, and that it existed before bodily birth. Individual spirits emanate from My Spirit, because I am the essence of all life. Birth (after conception, of course), life as a human in the earth, and death are particular, tangible manifestations of spirit.

Death appears to be the end of such a life, and it is in physical, emotional, and social terms. You can recall what Peter, your son, looked like, even as he was dead and in his wooden box. You cannot know what he would look like at nearly 25 or as a man your age, for his physical life stopped, suddenly, that December evening. His spirit continues, as you know, and spiritual growth, too.

Death is and is not a time of judgment. There is judgment on the quality of the earth life, on the development of spirit while in earth life, and on relationship to Me. It is like unto a final exam at the end of a course. BUT… the educative process continues, in another “course”.