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DISCOURSE 22

ETERNAL “LIFE”:

OR “ETERNAL DEATH”!

~ ~ THE “SECOND” DEATH! ~ ~

Death of the “Human Life-Force”

Reader: Revelation 2:11, 20:6 and 20:14 From Fenton’s Bible very surely makes it unequivocally clear that there really is a “Second Death” to contend with!

The obvious connotation of the four Scriptures means that there is a choice we can make, but such a choice is absolutely subject to the end-impact of the outworking of The Primordial Laws of Creation on all our life’s decisions, thereby producing the commensurate and final outcome. But we already well-know that by now, don’t we!

That essential first Scripture could be construed to refer to one single earth-life, but the very words, “Life”, and “Death”, infer far more than just a one-life-only notion. There is an obvious counter argument that could be made, i.e., why should the Bible be the final arbiter of whether or not humanity might believe in a final ending of our human life-force in a Second Death? Why could not other “religious works” with a different view be regarded as the “correct one”?

Well, in truth, no one has to accept this “reality” at all. That is both the nature and purpose of being gifted with free-will. We can believe what we like, but that will not change the operation of Divine Law on all and every aspect of what takes place in the whole vast Creation, including and especially what we humans choose to believe or disbelieve.

However, for the purposes of this critical Discourse about a hard and unchangeable reality, the key question must be: What does non-acceptance of this Truth really mean for our global societies, in particular how they are affected by the movers and shakers of those societies --- the rulers, the politicians, the Military people, the businessmen --- all whose input helps shape the attitude, the education, the very ethos of the particular society?

In terms of the serious ramifications of this critical question, perhaps the more decisive element in any society is the religious dimension, and what the religious leaders believe and how they might influence the given society.

The answer is simple and blunt. The non-recognition and thus non-acceptance of this critical reality across-the-board is the ultimate and key cause of all humanity’s many and increasing problems. The terribly wrong belief that we live only once drives the greed of the rich to begin with. The same one-life concept also drives the formulation of legislation of the nations. So until and unless the whole of global humanity recognises this unalterable fact and changes its attitude, it is not possible for long-term and sustainable change to ever be put in place.

For without the recognition and acceptance that the Death and Dissolution of the very “life-force” of each and every one of us is there waiting for us in the “Second Death” if we do not obey Creation-Law, means there is no reason whatsoever for mankind to change its direction --- especially in globalised corporate business practices, and in religion and politics.

A ‘one-life-only’ and ‘one-death-only’ concept ensures that the driving ethos of the human race will always be to take first and keep on taking --- simply because a “once-only-life-on-earth” belief will have at its heart, its core, the accumulation of worldly wealth in all its forms as its earthly priority. The exactly appropriate Biblical Scripture of sure warning is this:

The fact that the Second Death Reality is in the Revelation --- the last and deepest Proclamation handed down to John the Revelator for especially the Christian Church --- it is nonetheless the most difficult Biblical subject the leaders of that religion must face. That is why it is never publicly addressed by global Christendom. (We address that reason in this Discourse!)

Since it is a Lawful fact that a Second Death possibility/reality applies for all human beings, without that recognition, there is no ultimate brake on any of our personal-wish attitudes where we will do whatever we want for ourselves and to our blue planet home in the foolish and perverse belief that there are no consequences, no “punishments”, for our many transgressions against Divine Creation-Law!

So: Christians, especially: Two choices! Live your false religious narrative in the belief you are somehow serving God in your earth and church life and “rest in peace” at death, and/or believe you will be saved by your religion will automatically reach ‘paradise’. Both wrong!

The corporates, the billionaires, the politicians, the religious Jihadists, and most everyone else in the human race: Apart from anything else, it is surely logical to “believe” that the “consequences” for everything we do must be “commensurate with” the deed or action. You key players we have just mentioned --- despite your clout on the world stage --- what you do and your attitude of ignorance about what you will all probably go through, is the very reason why the Great Prophet, Isaiah, could prophesy so accurately for our times now!

Reader, in blunt Truth, therefore: Without complete human global recognition and embracing of what is in any case the unstoppable, unchangeable reality of the Second Death to awaken and thus curb our human stupidity, the destruction of global societies, in 2021 already ramping-up, will not be stopped by any human being or any group of human beings.

Up until this point in our journey of unfolding revelatory Truth, therefore, that key Scripture may seem to you to be concerned solely with the everyday deaths that occur virtually every second of the day somewhere on planet earth. Now, in this Discourse, however, the really serious nature of it will be seen for what it actually means and thus portends. That is why we have quoted the Scripture in its more pertinent fullness.

For every single one of us, this one or other of the two realities thus becomes the final outcome! Being gifted conscious life and, for human beings only, the free-will that accompanies it; we of planet earth, in one solar system, in one unimaginably-vast universe, in a far largerWorld of Matter, in an unfathomably-immense Creation, thus set in place our individual end-fate!

Despite the very Truth of such a thing, it is very probable that the title of this Discourse will seem incredulous to many, more particularly perhaps for people who are uncertain or disbelieving of the nature and process of just the physical deaths we all see at various intervals during the course of life. So, to state that there is such an event as a “Second Death” will surely cause considerable disbelief in the minds of many. Yet, just as we outlined the process of earthly death in the last Discourse, so can an explanation for a seemingly radical idea of a “second death” also be offered.

Now: A major point to seriously understand! Whereas the “conceptual-realities” of “Resurrection” or “Reincarnation” that we examined in a recent Discourse apply to The First Death “process” ---- note, even with multi-lives ---- that is not a contradiction. That “process” in our human journey is simply the “cycle of rebirth” we must undergo while we exist in a “conscious state” down here in The World of Matter.

In very stark contrast, the “Second Death” process is just a “once-only-in-one’s-existence” happening and outcome --- and thus a “final end”! That sure reality must then, of course, presuppose a precise and similarly-final journey for the human soul/spirit. And that is true, but it is one that no longer carries the opportunity for another birth, another chance for redemption on earth or, for that matter, on any other Plane of Creation!

In this critical Discourse, then; along with the many millions who reside in the Ethereal Realm close to the Earth Plane, we will also learn what the fate of the greater mass of human beings living on earth right now will be!

Despite all the mocking that this particular subject will no doubt receive, to bring this concept to an unassailable reality, we will tap into the detail of the process from the knowledge of The All-Truth of Imanuel: humankind’s Eternal Mediator!

Firstly: From Fenton’s Bible, with my emphases, a few very relevant quotes. Respectively: Revelation 2:11, 20:6 and 20:14 very surely makes it unequivocally clear that there really is a “Second Death” to contend with!

Of course, that end-reality being a Creation-Law absolute means that it applies to every human being on earth. Just because it is revealed in the Bible does not mean that other faiths and religions do not have to be concerned with it. For, as we have constantly reiterated, of the too-many billions of “human souls” that occupy the religious space of all the too-many religions for the good of humanity, it will yet only be “the few” who will earn the right to reach Paradise!

Now reader; as we write these explanations, an especially-crucial insight is “given”, for after 2,000 years of muddled and distorted Christian “theology”, this Work, under Higher Guidance, identifies, reveals, the “super-critical” key that has, and is still holding, billions of Christians --- especially --- in serious spiritual jeopardy! Thus: Our clarification of Bible Scripture far extends what has gone before!

We will now give you the reason for that, so take serious heed, for your very spiritual existence depends on you recognising this vital Truth!

Right: In terms of a --- or the --- Second Death: For a very, very long time this Biblical fact should have been subject to at least theological analyses and discussion at the very highest levels of the various denominations to begin with and thence by some kind of combined “council” of global Christendom.

After all, the indisputable reality of the Second Death --- which the Bible warns about --- comes from The Revelation, of which it is stated that “no word of it shall be altered”. So, one would think that the global Christian Church leadership would want their flocks to have the benefit of the actual Truth that the Bible contains.

But no! Instead, reader; here is what must be one of the most cunningly-calculated schemes to hold power and control over the masses by virtually all Christian denominations. Since it cannot possibly be said to come from a lack of knowledge of what is written in the Bible ---- for Church “leaders” spend their entire lives “studying” it --- in devious principle the whole “today-reality” of this cunningly-contrived structure smacks of Caiaphas’ infamous words at the sentencing to death of Jesus, the Love of God Incarnate:

“It is better for one man to die than that a whole nation should perish”.

Now: If the “Church” should attempt to argue against the validity of our clear assertions why, then, over that long period of time, have successive popes, bishops, ministers and all manner of Christian clergymen and supposedly “well-read” theologians, carefully maintained a studiously-cunning level of screaming silence and thus very suspicious avoidance of any mention of the critical reality of The Second Death!

Reader: Here we have an obviously very important reality --- i.e., “The Second Death” ---- that has never ever been openly discussed and dissected by that very large “group”, and/or even publicly acknowledged as actually being in the Bible. --------- WHY?

That is a very key question; so let’s answer it.

WHY THE “SECOND DEATH” REALITY IS CAREFULLY AVOIDED BY
CHRISTIAN “LEADERS”!

Firstly, the hard fact about “The Second Death” means that it must forever remain as a Divine Creation-Law reality! Do we get that? All good, believing Christians out there; hear it again! ------------- It is a Divine Creation-Law absolute!

To that end, let’s now put forward in our view the only reason for the great Denial! It is, of course, primarily for the masses of seriously-impacted, unthinking Christian sheep who simply hang on to every explanation of their “leaders,” as if they are the final arbiters of the Pure Knowledge of Divine Creation-Law.

In truth, therefore; the very reason why global Christianity would have to somehow try to completely dismiss, or sanitise, the notion of “The Second Death” stems from what they have “extracted” as “their truth”, from the Crucifixion of Jesus! And from that, have produced a spiritually-dangerous narrative that is now locked in place as “the sacrosanct dogma”, which has been stubbornly held to for all that time!

So: Why the great DENIAL? Well, even though very carefully masked by the “Churches”; with just a basic understanding of the main points of Bible Scripture and some simple logic, the reason is eminently clear --- and it is this!

Any acceptance of a doctrine of a “Second Death” unequivocally and very clearly means the Biblical “lake of fire” --- from which there is very obviously no return!

That extrapolates into the commensurate reality that there is for that “soul”, no possible chance of entry to Paradise --- even if “they all believe in Him”! So, the official Christian Church “opiate for the masses” must be chanted --- ad nauseam:

“HE CAME TO DIE FOR US”!

There, reader, in that one single “mantra” of terrible and calculated distortion is the Golden Key to understanding “Why” the “Collective Church” must remain silent about the Divine-Law Warning of The Second Death!

For with that Truth, the whole idea of a Son of God coming to earth to be tortured and murdered for humankind’s evil dispositions towards each other, but more especially towards The Creator and The Trinitarian Godhead of God, Jesus and Imanuel, is simply smashed out of existence!

For where in that horrendous act of evil towards The Creator of all things Good is there automatic entry to Paradise for these roughly 2 billion Christians who arrogantly believe they are saved because of that inexcusable “torture and murder” of HIS SON --- Who Was then, and forever will be, a Living Part of GOD!

The great foolish, ignorant, and arrogant dogma that is not just locked in place through sheer human conceit, but it possesses no logic or intelligence in its formulation as a supposedly final, sacrosanct tenet of virtually every Christian denomination.

So, reader: With that “unchanging tenet” of global Christendom for around two millennia of earth-time, here is the key associated question! How has over 1500 years of Bible interpretation by so-called experts arrived at such a notion when one can read a very different and totally opposite reality from the very same Book --- from any and every Bible?

In reinforcing Truth: If there is a complete extinction of conscious life in a “Second” and “Final Death” for transgressions against Creation-Law, in particular the most heinous lie quoted above, then for those who refuse to accept the hard Truth of that “murder”, there is no Paradise to go to, and to live in eternally.

Reader: Therein rests the craziest paradox for Christianity! The very thing that they place greatest store on as an absolute “Church tenet of truth” that will somehow give them automatic right to enter God’s Kingdom of Paradise for human spirits, is actually the very same “belief” that will send most of them onto the path to The Second Death! That is the Christian reality for all time!

Now: To perhaps help a “few” to recognition of what we are trying to clarify here; from The All-Truth of Imanuel, Spirit of Truth, Son of Man and Eternal Mediator --- we will “Correct” this terrible and inexcusably-appalling dogma that has cast, literally for billions, a “shadow of permanent death” down the long-centuries of Christendom!

The great tragedy is not just for Christians, but for all of humankind; for HE really did come “like a thief in the night”, thus fulfilling the great warning prophecy: “You know not the hour your LORD will come”!

Worse: For close to a century HIS Great and Sublime All-Truth, known only to a pitiful “few” who “recognised”, has thus lain unknown and therefore unused by the greater bulk of the human race.

Instead, all we have embraced is just religions --- by the thousands --- virtually all of which, without the necessary change to His Final Truth, will not ever permit “the followers” entry to The Kingdom of God --- to Paradise --- to our true Eternal Home!

Therefore, knowing that perhaps only a “few more” might spiritually awaken in the rapidly-closing time still left; as we have stated so often thus far, we must yet still offer His Eternal Truth for perhaps those “few more”!

Christians especially: For once in your closed-minded religiosity, forget your church dogma delivered to you by “leaders” who are appointed over you only by other men, and open your spirits --- your very life-force ---- so that in the recognition of The Very Truth of God, you might become one of Isaiah’s “few”, or Jesus’s “the few that will be saved”!

The key Scriptures that should be fully embraced by all so-called believing Christians; that of Isaiah --- but more especially The Very One they all profess to believe in and follow --- Jesus!

They do not anywhere say the many! ------ No: They say ---- only the few!

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In concert with the critical nature of the subject matter of this Discourse, let’s seriously note a few key points; in truth, hard facts that should really scare anyone who calls himself a Christian. As we must continually hammer; because those “facts” are absolute realities of Divine Justice, they, of course, impact on every human being on earth --- irrespective of the religion, faith or creed! Thus:

“It is the most insolent defilement of the Sublime Godhead!”

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In direct concert with the thrust and purpose of this Work, you will have noted the italicised parts of the above quotes. Over many long centuries, the numbers of men who believed they were “Called by God” --- but merely “elected by men” --- must number in the thousands, of which the numerous Popes of Catholicism must especially all be numbered. The appalling distortions of The Son of God’s Words by those many men, now in this End-Time reach their zenith.

Despite our collective stupidity, thankfully, the Great Love of God, through the Other Son, Imanuel, yet still gifts to us The Almighty’s Sublime Truth --- which you know we are tasked to Proclaim!

In strict concert, we should by now well-understand that every Word of Imanuel’s Grail Message stands absolute for all time and for the Whole Creation of God. It is thus not something to be used in the wrong way.

In this case, however, perhaps emphasising and reinforcing just a few points might help the true and genuine seeker of Truth who does not wish to be lost! “The angels in heaven rejoice when just one human spirit finds its way to the Truth!” I’m sure that many of us are aware of that maxim, or derivatives of it. Thus:

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Let’s return to our standard format and bring in the experts of the “other two” of monotheism for their “knowledge”; for it is the three great Western religions of Christianity, Islam and Judaism that at least share the same fundamental Truth that there is only One God, and that there is a distance between God and His Creation.

THE “BIG THREE” OF MONOTHEISM AND HOW THEY RELATE TO THE “SECOND DEATH”

ISLAM
     In the previous Discourse on “The First Death”; through the writings of M.M. Ali the subject matter was examined about as much as the religion of Islam can give. There seems to be no acceptance therein of a “second death” where the very life-force of the spirit as a conscious entity inhabiting a physical body --- which is who and what we all actually are --- in that particular “death-process” is completely terminated. That means the step-by-terrible-step of complete annihilation of whoever transgresses Creation-Law to such a degree that the Law Itself in perfect reciprocity drives the particular human spirit to its end.

In addition, the same end awaits those who have consciously or calculatedly denied, denigrated, or distorted the Sublime Truth of The Godhead! And in doing so, sought not to inwardly change, but to maintain such dreadfully-wrong beliefs or teachings to, literally, the very end! Thus, to a point where that very life-force of our “Spirit” --- us ---- is no more! Such transgressions will not stand the test. People: Remember the many warnings down the ages! Only “the few” will “get through”!

In order to “get through”, however; it is imperative that we not only accept The Living Truth of GOD --- as it actually is --- but that we embrace it in gratitude and understanding so that we do not consciously harm our fellow-man! As we have hammered often; religions, historically, have not ever followed that admonition. So: What can Islam offer us here? Chapter 39, verse 42 from M.M. Ali’s Koran presents us with an interesting interpretation.

(*) My commentary: We definitely agree that such a “verse” --- one of thousands ostensibly given “verbatim from God” --- needs to be “reflected upon”; especially by the people whose accepted religion brought forth that “statement”.

(**) Let’s put that statement right. In PART I we learned the great and insurmountable difference between the designations, soul and spirit. What we learned according to Immutable Creation-Law is the fact that we, as human beings, possess “Spirit” as our inner animating life-force. Even though we also possess a soul-body, it is not our animating “life-force”. M.M. Ali has at least gotten one thing right in the verse where he identifies --- perhaps even inadvertently --- that it is the animal which possesses soul as its animating life-force!

Why? Because the “Spirit” stands at a higher level in Creation, and it is the elevated level of “spiritual power” and “connection” that permits human speech and human intelligence; attributes that the far lower level of animal will never attain to, because that is not its ordained place in Creation!

There is not much point in searching the religion of Islam any further for its “knowledge” of The Second Death, for it does not possess it, so we will move on and assess further, the largest monotheistic religion.

CHRISTIANITY

As with probably all religious teachings, various “competing factions” of religions have become very adept at interpreting particular or contentious Scriptures to suit the diverse groups that religions inevitably spawn. So is it with the Bible! One such counter would surely be the following Scripture from Hebrews 9:27: i.e., “...it is appointed to men to die once...”

As with death in the earthly sense, the reality of the “second one” is equally as subject to immovable Creation-Law. Indeed, only from that standpoint can it be so possible and be explained, by virtue of the simple fact that all things, from the smallest to the greatest, exist under that Eternal Law. If Bible “scholars” should use that Scripture to deny the reality of a “second death” then, quite obviously, if there was such divergence, we would, very logically, not have any allusions to it in The Book of Revelation vis-à-vis:

Allusions to “second deaths” and “lakes of fire” may sound religiously crass to many living in our increasingly technological and computerised society strongly directed to the ethos of the “god-corporate” and/or the “god-academic”. However, such ostensibly archaic religious ideas should be viewed as simply being “symbolic explanations” of particular and very precise lawful processes and outcomes!

The earlier Discourse --- “THE FIRE OF ISLAM” --- well explains the deeper “spiritual” meaning of “fire”. In any case, from the point of view of the Judaeo-Christian school of thought --- upon which Western society is largely moulded anyway --- we have at least established that the reality of “The Second Death” is very much alive and well in the Bible.

Moreover, the Spiritual meaning of the conqueror in the Biblical quote should be understood to mean one who has succeeded in conquering himself! He has conquered his own base weaknesses and is thus far more spiritually mature and knowledgeable than “before the fact”. His increasing spiritual awareness may also allow him to be more accepting of such an idea as “the second death”. Establishing the Biblical fact of a “second death” therefore permits us the use of this foundation to assess the ramifications of how we might be affected by this “event”. First, however, let us read the interpretation about it that Cruden’s Concordance offers. From page 96:

If we accept that there is such a thing as a “second death”, as the Bible clearly states, then we should expect, however, that it can only be brought about under the strict outworking of Creation-Law! In the current Biblical interpretation from Cruden’s Concordance, three different kinds of deaths are noted. Yet the Bible does not appear to indicate anywhere that there are three in all. Cruden’s mentions physical death, with which we are all familiar, and states that there is a “second death’, and also a “spiritual death”. One interpretation from Wikipedia gives us this view:

Whilst we can read there the clear reality that death is the “separation of body and soul”, the tormented suffering that is the hallmark of the very many who choose not to obey Divine Admonitions and thereby suffer the “Second Death” does not mean that the terrible process they must experience, though of long duration, is eternal. Why?

It is because the personal and conscious “life-force” of the spirit ---- the human entity at that unfortunate time which certainly must undergo its piece-by-piece dissolution to its final and complete annihilation --- but which then, the now “dead ego” of the “spirit mote” is freed to return to its origin at the lower level of the Spiritual Realm, unfortunately no longer conscious of self.

So, it is not an “eternal time-frame” process as the religious interpreters and philosophers believe; for in the dissolution and renewal of the universes --- which process follows an Eternal Cycle --- the human “spirit spark” will at some point get the chance to begin again the aeons-long journey to consciousness in The World of Matter once more.

We should understand that The Great Love and Grace of God manifests here where, despite the intransigence of that soul in refusing to obey Divine Creation-Law is nonetheless given another chance to develop to personal self-consciousness, become purified in spirit, and thus earn the right to --- one day --- finally enter Paradise to live there eternally.

As Imanuel, The Son of Man, has warned; ‘human spirits cannot do as they please, believe what they want, and then expect to “saunter stupidly” to Paradise’.

From Wikipedia contributors:

Whilst the actual process of The Second Death is not known by the vast bulk of the human race --- for that knowledge can only issue from Divinity --- at least some Christian denominations have recognised the hard reality of “annihilation of the conscious human ego”! Why, then, do they not hammer this Truth home to their flocks and put right once and for all the terrible distortion of “He came to die for us”!

Utilising Divine Creation-Law as the foundation for our explanations, we will show that, aside from physical death which we all must experience, there is the actual reality of the “Second Death” to contend with. Thus, there are not two different kinds of further deaths as Cruden’s Concordance avers, but only the final secondary one. This ‘Second Death’ is “Spiritual” Death!

Therefore. we can safely conclude that any opinion to the contrary in global Christendom will be solely due to an incorrect Biblical interpretation on this particular subject. Now: What do the Jews --- the “once-chosen” --- say? What gems of knowledge can their “scholars” offer? Again from “convenient Wikipedia”:

JUDAISM

In essence, Judaism, despite its long and once exalted connection with the, then, highest of knowledge; by rejecting Jesus as The Messiah --- for them too, mind --- to their detriment clung solely to the Torah and associated Jewish religious writings. By their stubbornness and refusal to accept The Son of God incarnated in their midst, they thus rejected the new knowledge brought by Him and recorded in at least basic form in the New Testament. The critical reality of The Second Death --- which will be the terrible fate of the greater bulk of global humanity ---- seems not to feature in Jewish thought today!

Right: Now that we have gotten “the big three” out of the way, let’s now enter the world of real knowledge about an extinguishing of “life” that is both terrible and prolonged. Yet, as we have hammered, ad nauseam, such a “death” will affect just those who have transgressed Creation-Law to such an extent that, for them, it is the only end possible. Of course, we must also accept that human free-will decisions will have brought that about. No one is forced to transgress so unwisely.

Tens of thousands of years of ongoing opposition to, and transgressions against, The Eternal Laws of God have resulted in many unnecessary incarnations for all who are on earth today. Let’s say it again! That means we didn’t learn sufficiently in most of those life-times, and now we are all together at this End-Time where the Final Knowledge of All Truth is also with us.

But we are too locked into our own “stuff” to even deign to accept the last lifeline graciously gifted to us from out The Great Love of God through Imanuel, our Eternal Mediator! That is why most of us will go through that dreadful end!

Now: Since the Laws of Nature and scientific law must both inherently possess validity only under the umbrella of that Highest Divine Law, let us approach this particular subject matter not from a purely “religious” perspective, but from a combined intermeshing of various principles that nonetheless embrace Creation-Law!

So, reader: With what we have written thus far, do we believe we know what “the” Second Death really is --- exactly? In order to find a starting point of explanation we must first consider the differences between that which is eternal, and that which is not.

Stephen Hawking’s contribution to that debate, even though lauded scientifically, is completely unsound; for his universe --- despite the mathematical equations and millions of words --- is neither eternal nor infinite! We learned that very early on.

The earlier Greeks, Indians, Persians and Teutons shared a broad, common view that history is cyclical, with no beginning and no end. But in an “eternal interplay between birth and death”, different civilisations rise and fall. This view, however, is not quite the “eternality” that we mean.

The French philosopher and mathematician, Rene Descartes (1596-1650), rejected all previously held beliefs and built his own philosophy on the one premise he held to be indisputable, the existence of himself as a “thinking subject”. This is signalled in his “personalised statement”: “I think, therefore I am.”

As a “dualist” philosopher, Descartes believed that whilst there are two different forms of reality or substances -- thought or mind, and extension or matter --- he nevertheless maintained that both substances originate from God, because, as he correctly surmised,“ ...only God Himself exists independently of anything else”. He thus concluded that man is a dual creature --- of the mind, and of the body. From perhaps more a philosophical standpoint, he equated the mind with spirit.

The existentialist beliefs that Sartre (1905-80) propounded thought that man had no eternal nature to fall back on, and it was therefore pointless to search for the meaning of life. Existentialism, in the philosophic sense, appears to represent the 20th Century’s answer to all other philosophical beliefs of the past. It is therefore interesting to note the path that philosophy has taken.

An early and strong acceptance of a separable soul or spirit before the Birth of Christ became interspersed with diverging philosophic/religious views at varying intervals up to the present. In the century preceding Sartre’s, however, another European philosopher had already rejected the values of Christianity. Friedrich Nietzsche, (1844-1900), regarded the Christian ideal as “slave morality”. In his opinion, both Christianity and traditional philosophy had turned away from what he termed “the real world”, and instead directed their thinking towards “heaven” or the “world of ideas”. He urged people to be “true to the world” and not to be seduced by any offers of “supernatural expectations”.

In terms of an actual truth or a distortion of that truth, his reference to Christianity as being a “slave morality” could quite clearly be viewed as a “truth in itself” if, in the course of centuries, the original teachings had become so badly distorted that only rigid fundamentalism or a religion of fear was left. Without the vitality and vibrancy that only “Pure Truth” can offer, apathy, superficiality and non-understanding --- with the obvious potential to lead into hypocrisy --- may well then become the “way of that religion”. Of course, this applies to all beliefs and teachings, and not necessarily religious ones.

As we explained in the PART II Discourse on our Origins, we know that Creation consists of two main basic parts, the Eternal and the “non-eternal” or Material. For human spirits, the Eternal part is that region of Creation from which we issued as non-conscious spirit-seeds on our journey down to the earth in the “non-eternal” World of Matter.

That part is, of course, what we now well-know as the region to which the earth and the physical universes belong, and to which we had to journey in order to fulfil our ordained purpose to develop to a fully conscious state. Recognising both our Origin and our life’s purpose down here gifts to us the concomitant potential to return to The Spiritual Realm as a fully-purified Spiritual being! For that is the only state in which we are able to return home!

In order to more fully understand why there is a “second death” reality to contend with, there needs to be the further recognition that there is necessarily a “time-frame constraint” for all the Material Worlds of Creation.

The Eternal-Laws decree that everything in the Material Worlds must inherently have a finite lifespan. The Eternal Realms, quite logically, do not. In our world of the earth and physical universes, we can readily see vast numbers of diverse creatures and inanimate life-forms with varying life spans. Their life-cycle ranges from fractions of a second for sub-atomic particles, to hours for the minutest creatures, to days for some insects and on to years for those of the animal world.

Man, as the only creature on earth with an inner animating spiritual core and free will, has a life span of around plus or minus 70 odd years. The great trees, though, can live for thousands of years. Out in the vast tracts of the universe, however, suns and planets are born, live out their allotted life-span over billions of years and then collapse and disintegrate to be reborn as other celestial globes aeons later. And the far larger galaxies have a life span running into billions of years.

Notwithstanding such incomprehensible measurements of distance and time, everything in the Material World nonetheless has its time of birth, life and disintegration. That part of the Great Creation is therefore finite with a strictly ordained time of existence, after which it must also disintegrate back to its primordial components to be reformed into a new Material Creation.

Such a time span is clearly difficult to comprehend, but it nonetheless behoves each of us to concern ourselves with this concept, for the disintegration of a whole part of the Material World cannot take place without huge and unimaginable dislocations and upheavals. Under the immensely powerful outworking of Creation-Law, whole galaxies and universes would be absolutely convulsed in this process. Quite logically, therefore, whomever inhabitants this very small planet earth can expect similar kinds of convulsions also, with a correspondingly large degree of dislocation and destruction when that time arrives!

Now, being of the Spirit in his inner animating core, and being of the Material in his physical body, man, in reality, stands in both parts at the same time. With his Origins from out of The Eternal Spiritual, he has the potential to return there to reside eternally. With his other foot in The World of Matter, however, he has an equal chance of remaining there tied, as it were, to it. That final life or death choice is his and his alone. And therein lies the key to the understanding of The Second Death!

In the granting of conscious life to humankind, and the accompanying formation of the Material Worlds for the many journeys man must make therein in order to spiritually develop and mature, The Eternal Laws that govern this process also determine the total time of existence for this part of that World, in strict accordance, however, with The Creative Will of God.

Thus, this earth, and therefore man on it, obviously has the exact same amount of allotted time -- in terms of its total existence in this part of the Material World.

At the close of that time-period, it will undergo its disintegration phase too, exactly in accordance with firmly established Creation-Law which then transforms the component pieces into a new part of the Material World in a vast, humanly incomprehensible cycle of birth, life and disintegration over a similarly stupendous time-frame.

It should be seriously understood that whilst such concepts of time are mind-boggling for humankind, that incomprehensible time-aspect is not even a “snap of the fingers” in terms of Eternity under the aegis of The Creative Will. Our general inability to come to terms with such a concept owes itself to the fact that we, the human spirits of earth, even though possessing the potential to live eternally, were never inherently so. It is therefore important to remind ourselves that we will never be able to form a knowing concept of eternity.

I think we have already stated this; nonetheless, only Those Who Live that reality can consciously know what Eternity/Infinity really is --- and that will never be us! Such “living knowledge” will forever be beyond our grasp; for despite the beliefs of various diverse religions that they are of the “First Creation” closest to God --- as we have already very clearly established --- we are merely “developed” beings only, very far from God. We are not “created” ones.

Having thus established a basic framework of time through which the ramifications of the current subject can be further explored, let us continue our explanations. As previously stated, the precisely determined and ordained time of life for humankind on Earth is necessarily exactly the same as the far larger and clearly defined part of the Material World to which the Earth belongs. This fact decrees that that ordained time-span is naturally also the amount of time given over for our spiritual maturation. This aeons-long period nonetheless represents just part of our total existence.

THE ACTUAL “SECOND DEATH” PROCESS

First, however: The “cleansing process” of Earth and global humanity!

Brought about solely through our foolish refusal to heed The Eternal Laws of Creation in the belief that we knew it better --- that man could decide “The Rules” with impunity --- the impending destruction of man’s mostly aspiritual works will carry along with it all who contributed to the whole insidious process; who thereby accelerated humankind’s downward path.

Since it is the major part of global humanity who chose not to abide by the true Laws of Life, Isaiah’s “future reeling earth” will provide the necessary mechanism to effect, in the severest fulfillment, the degree of destruction required to remove the many at the “appointed hour”. The interestingly-termed “tribulation” for global humanity will therefore necessarily be the most destructive ever experienced in our long and bloody history. Global demographics, in terms of the very large numbers of the young, will play its decisive part in the emotional turmoil and anguish of families and societies at that inescapably-terrible time.

Despite the unfortunate “doomsday reality” of this impending “Judgement”, we should be under no illusion that it is of our making! So now, at this time in the spiritual and evolutionary development of mankind, our collective “karma” over millennia ---- which for the most part consists of dark, debased and degraded activities --- is being returned to humankind with increasing strength and frequency under the lawful outworking of interlinked and inviolable Primordial Laws.

It is the unenviable task of the “Elemental Beings of Creation” --- (about whom you have learned in the Discourse on “NATURE”) --- who, through the generation of increasingly severe effects of the world’s weather patterns and catastrophic natural disasters, will “return” to us a large part of our well-deserved “payment”.

As we all surely well-know by now, that time is upon us; for the daily news items graphically show us the increasing scale of more and more disasters across the globe. Yet, under the unstoppable outworking of The Creation-Law of Reciprocal Action in the first instance, that reality is in exact accordance with both the individual and collective Spiritual Volition of all humankind.

We should be perfectly clear, therefore, that the “Forces of Nature” will bring about the “renewal” of the earth under the outworking of her Lawful Power which is, at the same time, the outworking of The Divine Laws! We should thus strongly note a key point here; that these events will occur at the precisely ordained time, “irrespective of the condition of the inhabitants”.

The term condition in this case means the spiritual condition, or level of spiritual maturity of the inhabitants. Therefore, as we continually reinforce, since most of man’s decisions for all his time on earth have tended more toward war, strife and degradation of his material home, we can expect that the collective reciprocal return of that volition will be severe and destructive, returning tenfold our original “choices”, albeit in Perfect Justice. Unfortunately for humankind, however, it will be under the aegis of the “whirlwind constant”.

Activated by our free-will, this lawful process will mark the closing of all cycles for earthly humanity in this Material Part of Creation. In that context, what we have thus explained here will equate to the “scything” or “cleansing” of global humanity in the “First Death” process for the many who will be removed then. For that is the “first part” of the destruction of global societies and their human complement. In this final and comprehensive “cull”, that, of course must take place “first”!

The “Second Death”, however, is an entirely different proposition altogether, for that is the actual “disintegration” of the very life force of each individual. The very many who will succumb to the “scything of global humanity” in the “First Death” reality --- and then not enter into what should be humankind’s ordained journey of “spiritual maturation” on a “cleansed earth” --- will set themselves on a course that will eventually take them through the process which brings about “The Second Death”.

Thus, that very large group of very intransigent, departed, humanity will, at the precisely-ordained future time, experience then, the step-by-step “shredding” of their very “life force”, to final disintegration.

It is vitally important, therefore, to reinforce the fact that whilst the Grace of being able to “right past wrongs” is a constant promise, the time available for any such expiation is precisely that under which the Material Part of the World is ordained to exist as our physical home. At the end of that allotted time, everything that is part of that materiality or connected to it will go through its “disintegration process”.

So, unless we have reached a degree of spiritual maturity and inner purity sufficient to take us above the pull of the earth, any human spirits who have not managed, or not bothered, to concern themselves with the necessity to become spiritually mature will be caught up in the disintegration of all that did not.

It should always be remembered, however, that this whole process is a completely natural and ordained one --- even if difficult to comprehend in terms of reason or scale --- and ultimately wrought by our “refusal to obey”!

What is also vital to understand is that whilst the earth is the obvious home of mankind in the material sense, and the Ethereal World holds transitional Planes for souls in the Beyond, both ‘Planes’ or ‘Realms’ belong to the “non-eternal” Material Part of Creation. The true Spiritual Realm, as we have hammered often enough, stands far higher in The Eternal Part of Creation.

Now: In order to fully understand the “Second Death” process and the Scriptural warning about it, we must again revisit the concept of Reincarnation. It is a concept which needs to be recognised as, or likened to, a “school of learning”. Thus, each earth-life lived represents a class or stage in which our spiritual development can be furthered --- if we so choose.

However, we should not be so naive as to believe that each successive incarnation automatically places us on the next highest step. Whilst that may be a desirable idea, and one which has very many adherents in some very incorrect religious beliefs, the reality is vastly different. In any case, the present state of humanity clearly testifies to the contrary.

With each earth-life, we are given the opportunity to re-awaken -- nothing more. In every case, in every incarnation, we must recognise anew the purpose for which we were born, and live accordingly. Therefore, to this earthly school we must return a number of times.

Remember, reader: This is what is meant by “Resurrection of the flesh”! The “extra classes” allow us more time to learn and to fulfil our spiritual purpose, thus helping our ascent. It is equally true, however, that irrespective of how many “classes” one might “attend”, one may never recognise the purpose for which one incarnates.

We would, thereby, very unfortunately naturally and consequently continually gravitate towards material or even evil pursuits. Such a life-path re-strengthens unnecessary binds to the Material World, from which one will need to strive harder to break away if one truly wishes to finally ascend out of the inevitable and approaching chaos.

Irrevocably connected with aspiritual human endeavour and behaviour is the inexorable and rapidly-approaching “hour” that will signal to planet earth’s Elemental Guardians the ordained time for Reciprocal “Creation-Law” resolution.

Finally, after many “classes”, examination day for everyone arrives. The result will determine whether one graduates from the “school” and achieves spiritual freedom, or whether one fails the “examination” and remains behind. With regard to us human beings currently in Material Creation, the examination is now due, with fewer opportunities for a “recount”.

This “reality” is mirrored in the increasing problems within societies, and in the enormous and rapidly increasing amount of reaping in suffering that we witness daily on a global scale. As previously stated, the length of time under which our “school” was ordained to run for is exactly that of the equally ordained time of life for this part of Material Creation to which the earth, our “classroom”, belongs.

That “collective reaping” of mankind means that all individual outcomes are simultaneously being resolved within that collective parameter.

Whilst a “second-death” concept necessarily represents a finite one --- as must the life-span of each material globe --- the infinite aspect of this process is characterised by a Cycle of Creation that is Eternal, thus without end. So, a continuous coming into being of the star systems and universes contained within the Material World. In this overall, infinite continuity, individual suns and planets within such systems simply undergo their own time of birth, life and disintegration.

That is because the Material Part of Creation was firmly bound to the unalterable Laws of Evolution and Dissolution from the very beginning, in strict accordance with The Creative Will of God. This “Creative Will”, of which The Laws of Nature are part, is the Power or Force which, in its activity, continually forms and dissolves worlds, exactly as can be observed in cosmological activity.

We need to reiterate the key point of what we learned in a previous Discourse; that “The Laws of Nature” are inherent in The Will of God. In other words, the “Elemental Forces of Nature”, in their ordained purpose and activity, carry out The Eternal Will. Under the inviolable Law of Reciprocal Action (Sowing and Reaping), the “Elemental Beings” --- both the large and the small --- produce the reciprocal effect of mankind’s decisions.

Now, reader, understand this hard reality once more! What is ordained to occur as the “inevitable happening” will proceed at its precisely determined moment, irrespective of the condition of the Earth, or its inhabitants -- i.e., us. And as we clearly know, the term condition in this case means the spiritual condition or level of spiritual maturity of the inhabitants. Because such concepts differ vastly from standard scientific notions, and also from orthodox Christian teaching, we will restate the key points once more.

Omnipresent throughout all of Creation is The Creative Will --- out of which the Ethereal World of the “Beyond” and the Material World of the Earth Plane issued as one inter-connected Whole. In necessary reinforcement: From its earliest beginnings the Material Creation was thus inexorably bound to immutable Creation-Law, which also brought about evolution and dissolution. And, as already noted, what we refer to as Natural Law is, in reality, the expression of The Will of God in Material Creation! In its expressionistic-activity, therefore, it is continually forming and dissolving worlds, exactly as astronomers observe.

Thus, in concert with a time scale we humans can never ever comprehend, and a “death” process that many would disbelieve anyway, it is nonetheless crucially important that we reinforce for you --- scientist, theologian, and layman --- that you strive to understand this key fact: That in the Material World, only the cycle of Creation is Eternal.

Not necessarily the life of individual component parts as a whole. Only in a continuous “coming-into-being, disintegration and re-formation” is the “great Cycle” Eternal and without end: thus infinite!

It is therefore within this great and stupendous happening that all the many revelations and prophecies are fulfilled. Within this framework, also, there one day comes the last, i.e., the final sorting out for each material celestial globe. However, whilst this does not take place simultaneously in the whole of Creation, it is a process connected with that part of Creation which reaches the point in its cycle where its disintegration must occur, so that it can once more begin the process of renewal in the fulfillment of The Eternal Cycle.

In strict accordance with the consistency of the Natural Laws, the exact point at which disintegration of each celestial globe must begin is precisely determined. Most importantly for humankind, therefore, the process of disintegration must develop at a very definite point in time. However, as with everything in Creation, this actually represents a transformation -- albeit a mighty one -- which thereby provides the opportunity for further development.

Once this collective point of its ordained evolutionary development is reached, however, this Material Part of Creation, along with the earth and all its inhabitants, will be “ripe” for the “final sorting”. That is the moment of our “either-or” --- our final 50% Choice and 100% Outcome!

Either we are raised upwards to The Light if we have followed a genuinely Spiritual Path or, if we have become convinced that material or aspiritual considerations are more important or more valuable, we are held fast to the World of Matter.

Thus, through our own personal desire to seek things other than those which hold true spiritual values, we are drawn, along with our region of that vast World, into its dissolution and disintegration: