When the hour of death arrives, the Angel entrusted with cutting the Thread of Existence joins the dying at his deathbed.
At the precise instant in which we exhale the final breath, the Angel of Death takes the Soul out of the body and cuts with his reap the Silver Cord, a certain mysterious thread, silvery, that connects the Soul with the physical body. Such magnetic cord could lengthen or shorten until the infinite.
A dream is said to be a tiny death; it is known that during a dream the Soul is not inside the body, but that it travels to remote distances and then the Silver Thread lengthens infinitely. Thanks to such a thread the Soul is able to return to the physical body in the moment of awakening after the dream.
The moribund are accustomed to see the Angel of Death with his ghostly, skeletal figure, adorned with the funeral apparel. It is clear that this so sinister figure is only assumed when these Angels are working; outside of their work they assume beautiful figures, may be of children, maybe of ladies or of venerable old men. The Angels of Death are never bad or perverse. They always work in accordance with the Great Law; each one is born in his hour and dies exactly in his time.
The souls of the dead recapitulate or review the life that has just passed in detailed form; this procedure is always carried out retrospectively; during such a process the souls retake their steps, live in those places where they lived before, they always repeat the same things, the same facts, the same events.
When they come to revive the instants of their first childhood they seem like children. It is obvious that once they have reviewed their life as it happened, they come before the Master of Karma, before the Tribunals of the Law, ready to be judged. This is what it is called to come before the tribunals of God.
From such a judgement, from such a verdict, follows the future of each Soul. Some souls get on the celestial regions before returning to this world; others enter in the hellish worlds, located inside the interior of the Earth; and others, finally, return either immediately or somewhat later to this valley of tears.
This return to this world can be quite painful. Unfortunately, we always have to return.
The Angels of Life connect the Silver Thread with the zoosperm that is going to be fecundated in a womb.
The creature is in gestation in the womb, but the Soul that returns only enters the body at the instant in which the baby makes the first inhalation of air. Understanding this is vital and indispensable.
Therefore we, before this life that we have at this moment, had not only one past existence, but many others.
Each one is born in accordance with their own destiny; some are born in rich and very wealthy families, and others return amongst poor people and beggars.
If we did well in our past existence, we pick up the prize now, we return to homes where nothing is lacking and we will have comforts of all kinds.
If we did wrong, if we wasted money, if we were greedy, if we exploited our fellow men, if we made the error of stealing or of ruining another, if we made the wrong use of money, it is evident that it is our turn to return amongst miserable families, dressed with the bodies of beggars, unhappy, hungry and suffering malnutrition. So each one gets the fruit of their own actions.
It is clear that people don’t remember their past lives because they have the consciousness asleep; if people had an awaken Consciousness, then it is obvious that they would remember all their previous existences.
One should make an effort in doing works of charity, dress the nude, feed the hungry, give a drink to the thirsty, teach the ignorant, etc., etc., etc., so that in their future return to the Earth after death, they are born in beautiful homes, between people of good customs, with much abundance, peace and prosperity.
Q & A
1.- Do Angels of Life and Angels of Death exist?
R.- With the greatest pleasure I will respond to your question. The Angels of Death are present at the beds of the dying and live normally in the Fifth Dimension, in the Astral World of which we are told by the Esotericism and the Occultism.
The Angels of Life have bodies of children, they know much of occult medicine, they have power over the waters of existence, over the womb, over the amniotic liquid , over the creative organs, and they live normally in the Fourth Dimension, in the Etheric World.
There is not doubt that the Angeles of Life work with the women during childbirth. They could open every womb and help in every birth; they are accustomed to be extraordinary doctors, really they are those entrusted with connecting the Thread of Life with the fecundated zoosperm; they are the agents secrets that help all women that are giving birth.
2.- Then, in accordance with what you explain to us, does predestination exist, and is one able to change it?
R.- Distinguished lady, we are going to give an answer to such question. It is clear that predestination exists. Really this is the result of all the good and bad actions of our past existences. If one steals, they will steal from you; if one kills, they will kill you; etc., etc., etc. For example, I am now going to narrate to you now a very interesting case. It happened that a youth and three companions friends left for a trip from Mexico toward the United States. But they had a tragic event: the car in which they traveled hit another and there were counterblows with other vehicles that also circulated for the highway, with a balance of two dead and two wounded.
When we investigated in the Superior Worlds we found evidence to what is the Law of the Predestination. For one of the dead, the first of them, his death was instantaneous; he perished in the precise moment of the clash. Another suffered burns of third degree and after twenty days exhaled his last breath. The third was the driver of the car, which had a dislocation of the arm and a small wound in a leg only. And another, the fourth, suffered just a light wound in the head. We investigated especially to the first three and the result was the following: the person who perished first had lived in Mexico during the time of Don Porfirio Díaz; it is clear that it had been a rich, powerful person, a great farmer tyrant, that enjoyed running over the hard-working poor, tossing the horses on the peasants in the roads, etc., etc.
The person who died from serious burns, had made the error of tossing gasoline on the bodies of his siblings when they slept at night and then set them on fire; that one had been his very serious crime in his past existence and now perished in a car set on fire, and died with burns of third degree.
As for the third one, he had made a youth suffer in his past existence. It so happened that in a gang of boys they had hit him and had dislocated an arm pulling it violently; now he received the consequence during the accident. Therefore each one is born with their own destiny.
The destiny could be modified doing many works of charity, being devoted to the good, practicing the works of mercy, etc., etc. It should remain clear the concrete fact that destiny could also be modified, because when:
“An inferior law is transcended by a superior law, the law superior washes out the inferior law. Do good works so that you pay your debts.”
Samael Aun Weor
