Beloved disciples: I shall speak to you of the problem of death. Death is our crown. After death, the soul enters the astral light. When the hour of death comes, the Angel of Death approaches the deathbed. There is a choir of Angels of Death. This choir is conducted by the planet Saturn. Each Angel of Death carries a book. In this book are the names of all the souls which must depart from the flesh.
Nobody dies the day before. The Angel of Death only removes the soul from the body. The soul is linked to the body by a fine, heavenly cord of a silvery color.
The Angel of Death breaks the cord so that the soul cannot re-enter the body.
After death, souls see the sun just as they used to, the clouds, the stars as always, everything just as before. For a while, the souls of the dead do not believe that they have died. These souls see all the things of the world just as they did before; therefore they do not believe that they have died.
The souls of the dead live in astral light. Astral light is the light of all enchantments and magic spells. Astral light is related to all the air; we eat it, we breathe it, but we can see it only with the eyes of the soul. Souls see themselves wearing the same clothes which they were wearing in life. Little by little, the consciousness of those souls awakens and they begin to realize that they are no longer belong to this material world of flesh and bones.
Samael Aun Weor
