𓄼❅𓂃 Or violence, then pass through probationary Spirit Spheres that surround the scenes of their foriner actions, and remain earthbound for ages. When at the end they have acquired the simple knowledge that they should have no Will but the Divine, passing through the death of Self-Will, the Spirit-death, they attain the Beginning; the Soul-World.

𓄼❅𓂃 The Initiate dies first in Spirit and thereby attains to the Eternal Life of the Divine Soul. The shells of perverse Self-Will and depraved sensuality having been dissolved, the errors of irrationality being discarded, the Soul diffuses the vital force of immortality into the good which remains. The Spirit hecomes absorbed with the Soul, the senses and intellect are consolidated into a whole, and the Supreme Thought is manifested.

𓄼❅𓂃 The Rosicrucians taught, that by delivering the human Soul, and spirit, into the Divine Soul, it over leaps the intermediary states, or earth-bound spheres, and the spark becomes the Flame-Soul. Thus the in visible body dies and becomes spiritualised or rather Divinised. The spiritual death is the actual death of the depraved in us, and is as real as the physical death, but far more difficult to accomplish. The invisible body, the shell, must die before the Soul can live for ever. Whether one subsequently continues in the physi cal body unto a patriarchal age, or prefers to shuffle off this mortal coil earlier, is of no importance; being at one with the Absolute, the Soul abides in her own.