When I was seven years old, on an occasion I dreamt about a church of a small town where close by there were a circus, fairs and stalls where they sold typical things of the locality; everything was clearly visualized, to such a degree that I spoke with a lady that went dressed in red; later on I would get lost amongst the people and then would leave. Five years later I visited that town and saw exactly the scene that I had dreamt, but I didn’t realize this, until the lady dressed in red spoke to me; I was surprised that after so much time everything happened to me as I had dreamt it.
Master, could you explain to me what is this type of phenomenon due to?
R.- With pleasure I am going to give an answer to this question. Allow me the freedom of speaking in a very simple form because this is an elementary book for applicants to Gnosis.
It is unquestionable that while we dream, the Soul escapes from the physical body in order to go to different places of the world or of the infinite space. Once we have explained this, it will be easy now to understand that the gentleman asking the question, outside of his dense body, traveled to the place that several years later he recognized physically. It is clear and it is obvious and evident that he lived in advance the event that was going to take place later on in the Physical world. This means that during dreams one can live events before these happen.
There is not doubt that the person that he recognized after several years and in the mentioned place, had already been in contact with him, in fact, during the same hours of the dream. These are things that are ignored by those people that are devoted to the Parapsychology.
2.- A long time ago an aunt told me that, when she was owner of a grocery store, a very rainy night a very mysterious gentleman arrived, whose face could not be seen since he was wearing a hat of very wide brim and was covered by a black coat of very big and lifted up lapels. The said gentleman requested a favour, that she kept for him a small coffer, because he was not going to his home at the moment, and it was raining; he would pick it up the following day in the morning. My aunt took the coffer and put it in the bookcase of the store. Upon leaving again the mysterious gentleman, she observed that his feet could not be seen, and that he momentarily disappeared like a shade in the night. Immediately she felt a chill and got a hunch that it was not anything normal all that was happening to her.
The following day, she told other people of such event; in the following one and a half year the gentleman didn’t come to pick up the coffer, and therefore people that knew about the case, recommended to her that she opens it because it could contain the body of a deceased. So she did that and upon opening it they realized that it indeed contained the skeleton of a dead person, but in the bottom it had a not worthless amount of gold coins; given the state of nerves in which she was, she decided to give the coffer to other people, since she didn’t want to know any more about the matter. Would you be so kind, Master, to explain to us something about this event?
R.- With the greatest pleasure I am going to give an explanation on this matter. Certainly the character so strangely dressed that came to that place, was, without any doubt a discarnate entity, the ghost of a deceased.
The concrete fact is obvious, and it stands out: that the ghost abandoned the Unknown Dimension for an instant in order to enter this Physical World of three dimensions.
It is unquestionable that such ghost gave that coffer to the person of the story. Alas, this lady was not able to understand the fact in itself and, full of panic, she gave to others what had been destined for herself. You see what fear means: this lady could have improved her situation with so fine a fortune; unhappily, she didn’t know how to take advantage of the beautiful opportunity that presented to her.
It is interesting to understand that the said ghost, besides materializing in the Physical World, could make what we would call a transportation, moving such coffer from the place where it was until he put it in hands of that lady. This type of materialization is really sensational.
3.- Then, Master, shouldn’t one take advantage of these opportunities when they come, in spite of being afraid?
R.- Distinguished lady, let me say to you that fear is something loathsome: the nations arm for fear, they embark upon the war for fear; the men put on gun in the belt for fear and murder for fear. Why fear? We all have to die sooner or later. The best that that lady of the story could have done was return the bones to the vault and take advantage of the money doing many works of charity and also benefiting herself.
Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, in the world many unusual, strange, Metaphysical events do happen
Somebody told me a story concerning a very interesting case: in a party, a certain lady was remarkable for her immense joy, because she was obviously highlighted amongst all the guests for her jovial character and physical beauty.
Many youths danced with her until three of the morning, an hour in which the lady manifested to be very cold; one of her admirers lent her a coat, so that she was sheltered.
Then, like a courteous gentleman, he offered to accompany her to her house. The lady didn’t decline such gentlemanly attention and left, then, the room of the banquet.
In a speedy automobile, the lady accompanied by the youth that offered his company and by some other male friends of his, arrived at the door of her house.
The young men said goodbye to the aforesaid lady when she went into her house.
The following day, the owner of the garment lent to the lady, together with his friends, knocked at the door of that mansion with the evident purpose of recovering the garment.
An old woman opened the door and asked: ” What do you want, gentlemen?” “We have come”- one of the young men said “for a coat that I lent last night to the young lady so- and-so” ” Oh!,”- the old lady said “if you want that garment you should be going to look for it in the vault; you will find it on the tomb of my granddaughter; she was the lady that danced with you last night; she died many years ago.”
The alarmed youth went certainly to the vault, they looked for the sepulcher of the lady and found it, and on it they found the coat.
See, my friends, an extraordinary case of materialization. Above all I want you to listen to my explanation; only so you will understand how this phenomenon of Metaphysical type took place.
I want you to know that upon dying three things go to the sepulcher: first, the physical body; second, the Vital Core of our organism, a kind of an Etheric Double that decomposes slowly next to the tomb; third, the Personality. This last is energy, it remains in the sepulcher, but sometimes it leaves from it and experiences the luxury of walking by diverse places.
In accordance with the story, I believe that you will understand that that became visible in the dance, that ghost that borrowed the garment was the personality of the dead. Only so could explain us the reason why that garment was found precisely on the sepulchral grave.
4.- Master, was that ghost the Soul of the dead, how should I understand this phenomenon?
R.- Distinguished young lady, do not be confused by what I am saying; listen to me with trust, the Soul of the dead could not be put in a sepulcher; what did appear was the personality of the deceased, and this is quite different. There is not doubt that the personality little by little is disintegrating until it disappears or annihilates. The Soul is something different, it is something divine, that could not be contained inside a sepulcher.
5.- We find these stories very interesting, Master; we would like that you tell us another event of appearances beyond the grave.
R.- With the greatest pleasure I am going to relate to the honorable assembly another case, by the way, very interesting.
This time is a lady that took a taxi at midnight in the city of Guatemala; upon asking the chauffeur the address of the home to where he should take her, she gave some directions that happened to coincide exactly with the vault of the city. A bit puzzled, the chauffeur left the lady exactly at the door used for funerals, demanding beforehand the corresponding payment, for the value of the transport.
The lady then told him that at that instant she didn’t have any money, but that she would give him a golden object by means of which she guaranteed payment; she then asked him to go to her house located in the such street, such number, etc., etc., the following day, knock on the door of that house and then give the chain to her mother claiming the money, value of the fare.
A little confused, the chauffeur went away from the funeral door, and early the following day he arrived at the house indicated by the lady, from which a lady of advancing age appeared, asking him what was it that he wanted.
The chauffeur, taking out the chain from the bag where he was carrying it, showed it to the lady, telling her the story, and requesting that was given the money, value of the passage of her daughter so-and-so.
Upon seeing that golden chain with its beautiful locket, the mother recognized the golden garment with which their dead daughter had been buried some time ago. It was clear, the old lady turned pale full of infinite terror.
Later on the chauffeur was invited to go into her home with the purpose to try to identify her daughter: with this object she showed him an enlarged picture that beautifully framed was in the living room. It is clear that the chauffeur recognized her immediately. There is not doubt that this mother remained in a state of awful confusion and it is even said that the chauffeur later saw her again in another part of the city.
This is another case of Materialization of the personality or Ex-Personality of a deceased. In ancient times there was more understanding by the people; then they buried the deceased together with all their belonging, including food, drinks and other kinds of things with which the deceased was familiarized in life.
In this way the personality of the deceased feels in his own environment, as if he were in his own house.
We should feel charity towards the dead and also understand with love those apparitions at the vault; we should take them flowers, love, prayers and also those foods that in life they were accustomed to eat. We here in Mexico gives the example on the Day of the Dead, November 2, putting the food and drinks on the sepulchers that they so much have enjoyed; I wish that many people of other countries followed this example.
Samael Aun Weor
