If, as a pure hypothesis, the dying person and the newly-born baby could have and keep full consciousness of the passage from one condition to the other, that is, of the passing from the hereafter to the present world, and viceversa, they would obtain the state of perpetual wakefulness, the certainty of life after death and of the cyclical return in a new body (reincarnation ).

We have said: “ if, as a hypothesis……”; but, for we archeosophers and esoteric Christians, it is not a hypothesis, but rather a true, positive, experience, already gained by courageous people who have tried it. This experience is the result of methodical and persistent exercises, mentioned in our Introduction to the Major and Minor Mysteries (Booklet 4 ).

 

There we defined this singular experience with the traditional term of “the Initiatic Death and the Resurrection of the Initiate”, and we also said that it was part of the Mystery of esoteric Christianity.

 

The voluntary journey there and back in the hereafter, which we have named “Out of Body Experience”, that is, the separation of the anatomic body from the energetic bodies constituting the individual, is also the result of an inner travail in this and in previous existences, and this is why in some individuals it can happen with a certain spontaneity.

 

You know that every human being is composed of different vehicles created by the Supreme Maker to allow his creature to live in the different worlds (planes) of the Universe, vehicles that can be defined as:

1)- physiological body;

2)- etheric body ;

3)- emotional or astral body ;

4)- mental body ;

5)- vital energy .

 

These are supported and kept together by the Ego , which holds the true immortal Man. The Ego which some call the “Causal Body ”, is the command cabin for the Spirit, of the Emotive Soul and of the Erosdynamic Soul. With the real death we have a clean cut in different times: first of all, the separation of the energetic bodies from the physical body, which disintegrates in the process of the cadaveric decomposition; then, there is the separation of the Ego from the other energetic bodies.

 

In all this travail, the dozing consciousness has a partial awareness of what is happening, then, oblivion follows and the loss in the worlds of atonement, namely, purgatory, the hells, until, having paid a certain debit, it returns in a new body suitable for the evolutive condition of the Ego, fluctuating between the state of sleep, dream and wakefulness, forgetting the experience of the intermediate state between the previous death and the new birth. And so on for millions of years.

 

The same cannot be said for the Initiate, who enters awake, conscious in the hereafter and re-enters in this world mindful of his past and his identity. So, it is exactly for this reason that we wish to communicate our experiences, so that anyone, freely, if they want, can try the experimentation of the Out of Body Experience and be convinced of their immortality and how things will be at the end of their days.

 

The usefulness of these experiences is beyond question, because, the action of the Master, when he projects his regenerating and reawakening strength in the disciple, to prepare him to receive, from above, the Vertical Initiation, or that of God, is more powerful when the knots tying the different subtle bodies are loosened.

 

Tommaso Palamidessi

excerpt from "INITIATION AND OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCE"

from the 6th Booklet