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LIFE AND DEATH IN ANCIENT TEACHING |
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A man was heard how telling he had experienced a very different weekend. He had been arranging his funeral! He described how he had bought his plot and chosen the tree. He would have a funeral where he would have a bio-degradable coffin that could be carried by friends and placed in a designated country spot where a tree would then be planted. He felt by instinct that we have life and are all part of a larger world-soul and so when he died his spirit would blend with that of the tree and the cycle would continue. He had just bought a ‘green funeral‘. He believed that this body would die but that the cycle of his life would continue.
“I have made death a messenger-of-joy, wherefore dost thou grieve?”
WHAT DOES THE BIBLE WARN US OF?
The Bible reports that Satan told two lies in the Garden of Eden. |
- He said firstly, Ye shall not surely die. Genesis 3:4.
- And secondly he said, Ye shall become as gods.
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| This implies that life would continue and would be inextinguishable once given (for more information see other pages—What is death? Souls and Spirits) but also that we can be gods. If we become as gods we need no external authority by which our life is judged and so it is taught in contradiction to the Bible, the Word of God, that there is no judgement. This needs to be examined more fully. It is certainly an ancient teaching about life and death and life beyond death, but does this make it true? |
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| It is sometimes worded like this – the ‘spark of divinity within’, ‘within me there is the form of the divine‘, ‘you of yourself are always christ‘, ‘you are god’ and you are ‘merged wholly with god’ for ‘god is your entire being’. Baird T. Spalding, in The Life and Teaching of the Master of the Far East, from which the above quotations were taken, stated that the central spark is god, the divine in us all; we all have the one life, the life of god. The christ (not Jesus Christ, but rather a supposed higher evolution than we are) is god flowing through the individual. Spalding also stated that ‘the tree of life is located in the very depth of our own soul.’ Modern forest burials reflect today’s spiritual fascination with trees as part of the world-soul. This does not come from the Bible and cannot be seen in the Bible. |
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These lies of Satan are reflected in the West in spiritualism, the new age and the new spirituality. It is said that we have no need for an authority source because we are gods ourselves and can take responsibility for our own lives; that there is no supreme and final authority. We are told that we can be what we want to be, and do what we want to do. We are taught that we are as part of the world-soul, and are therefore gods in the world. This means that there is no necessity for the Law of God for the Ten Commandments teach of the Creatorship and ownership of the world by the God of heaven. |
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