PASSING-OVER

DD 159 PASSING-OVER (ED 159)

A euphemism for what is commonly termed "dying". Passing-over is properly understood as an episode within a Circle of Possibility where a personality concludes its existence in one dimension only to continue in other worlds. It is in no way separate from life but part of it.

NOETIC STATE (ED 158)

The mental world. A state of Ideas and unexpressed forms in the Eternal Now. From the noetic state the Archangels derive the forms for creating and sustaining the phenomena of life. This state is where we may come to rest in between incarnations.

EP 34 After passing-over from the material plane we shall continue to live in the psychical world and, later on, in the noetical world before reincarnating on the gross material plane. Entrenched, encaged, in the petty present-day personality, most of us will fail to realize that we have crossed over to the other side, and will continue to live in the same restrictive manner as on earth. The work of self-consciously constructing our psychical and noetical expressions rewards us now and in the hereafter. "Verily I say unto you," warns Joshua, "Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be lossed in heaven" (Matt. 18:18).

ET 113 (When) we see a human being "die" - we prefer to say "pass over~~ , what is the characteristic of the corpse? Earth. Everything becomes a gas and returns to earth. What is not dissolved and takes its departure is our present personality. Raphael is the first Archangel to depart, for it is he who cuts the silver cord, in his capacity as the controller of etheric vitality. Then the departing personality sets flight, accompanied by Archangel Michael, who in leaving takes his warmth with him, which explains why a dead body rapidly cools.

Together with Michael, Gabriel also departs and abandons the watery element, so that he ceases to coordinate the working of the body’ s various liquids. The coordinating Archangel Uriel also leaves. The only one who does not follow them is Shaxnael, the angel of earth, who, as such, remains with the earth.

Michael, Gabriel and Raphael work simultaneously in the material, psychic and noetical bodies through the etheric doubles of each body.

In the psychic body, however, Raphael and Gabriel play the principal roles, since they have a closer connection with etheric matter, while Michael plays a secondary role.

ET 114 Then, when the psychic body is also discarded, at the time of the so-called "second death", these Archangels work together on the noetica3. body. Raphael, again, has the predominant role at that stage, as controller of Mind, in its pure state. Similarly, Micheal’s work there is of greater intensity, while it is Gabriel who plays a secondary role.

The etheric doubles are the binding links between the various bodies and are withdrawn when the bodies are dissolved.

ET 134 The phenomenon of "death" consists of the discarding, by a human being, of the material body, followed by the dissolution of the etheric double. The etheric double either dissolves slowly as the material body disintegrates, or immediately as in the case of cremation. The etheric double, upon separation of its body, returns to the Cosmic Consciousness. Because the etheric double only serves the Self-hood, and does not carry it --as the bodies do--, it is expendable much in the same way a snake’s skin is after it has been shed. The human being remains intact, however, as a permanent personality.

FH 36 On the other side people find the same environment as on
earth.

FH 38 What could happen if person is killed in the battlefield?

FH 40 The friend who took his material desire to the other side

FH 48 The librarian who committed suicide and denied to be dead

FH 52 The life of the intellectual on the other side

FH 58 What happens to human intelligence after death?

FH 207 Second death is the dissolving of the psychic body, which is
a gradual process. It is analogous to a sunrise.

FH 209 Some people short circuit the second death and go right into
the state of rest and then at appropriate time reincarnate.

HS 52 At death the individual withdraws with his psychonoetic body
and lives in the psychic world in a similar manner as he did
within the gross material world. Daskalos maintains that
most people do not upon death realize the transition.

HS 108 What happened to the material body and etheric double?

HS 146 Contacting a dead person

MS 88 CHAPTER SEVEN "FROM DEATH TO REBIRTH"

MS 92 An individual will after death begin living fully conscious
within one of the subplanes of the Psychonoetic World,
carrying along with him the virtues and the vices, his goals
and aspirations.

MS 94 What happens after death in more details

MS 140 How to know if a person is dead (silver cord)

MS 160 People who commit suicide have a struggle in the psychic
world.