Ordinary death is the separation of the conscious body from the unconscious. This is an everyday occurrence. Eternal death as stated in the Bible is the separating of the spirit from God! Eternal life is the reuniting of the spirit back with God.
The man who committed himself to the ways of God-love during his life time has life everlasting. His body complex undergoes a change when life ceases, but as Christ illustrated, that man ascends glorified into the spirit world.
The death of most ordinary men is a cessation of all earthly benefits and a symbol of the eternal spiritual death, which is a cessation of all spiritual benefits.
With his advent on earth, man was subject to the ingestion of sin (tree-apple). Man’s spirit was created with the immortality of Heaven, perfect and holy, like unto the spirit of God. This spirit is still in man and it wants to take him back to God but it cannot go with all the earthly baggage it is carrying. This is man’s Super-Conscious (which will be referred to periodically as “Super C”). It is a part of his unconscious self. It can be reached, along with the Sub-Conscious (which will be referred to periodically as “Sub C”) by meditation and self-hypnosis (as will be discussed in later chapters).
The problem lies with the Conscious state of man (which will be referred to periodically as “C”). With a body to feed, a mind to amuse and emotions to pacify, it is not an easy job for mankind to hear the still, small voice of his spirit, or choose to obey it.
The animal-like body man was given to wear was a superior job of engineering. With it he was given a Sub C to service and care for it, as well as care for the other two parts of his Consciousness. This wonderful inner consciousness was both an intuitive and knowledgeable protector of man. It is individual for each man, an educated learning instrument, compiling and storing all sensory and perceptive situations that go on around him. It was programmed to rule all bodily functions, subject only to the C of man.
In his C state, man decides what is good, bad, pleasurable or noteworthy. He can reason, choose, and “will” which way his mental and emotional growth should go. All this becomes a part of the memory bank his Sub C is installing. The Sub C tries to protect man from unpleasantness by using the stored knowledge and giving instinctive responses as well as learned responses and at times causing man to forget a traumatic incident altogether. A man’s C state dictates what his Sub C becomes.
Man with his two “under consciousness” helpers set out to take his immortal spirit through the world and back to God where he wants to be. God wants him there too; that is why he made provision for him to get there. If man makes a series of bad choices during one lifetime, he is reborn with a new C and a renewed Sub C superimposed over the old one, allowing him to start the new life with the improved instincts that the past life had given him.
In this way man works himself forward to Eternity. If a man resists all good instincts, then he has a mindset that denies God. He refuses to acknowledge the existence of God and this causes eternal separation of this man from God, which is Eternal Death.