SCL: 1:19 He brings with him a lamp lit from the flame of Truth. he bears the rod of righteousness which rewards those who have overcome tribulations. O let him pass to the right side of the dividing flame! He has left us, he is coming to you, he approaches, he throws off the earthly wrappings, he stands free, he stands glorious. Does he not glow with splendour? Behold him, your worthy companion in brightness. Is he not wholly compatible with those of your company? See, he is a Shining One, a Hero of the Horizon. Is he not one destined to abide everlastingly? Take him, lead him to the Realm of Glory, show him his place in the Spheres of Splendour.
SCL:1:20 The eyes that were deceived on Earth now see clearly. O what splendours are revealed! The music unheard by earthly ears now sounds sweet melodious music. O what joyous rapture it brings! The nostrils inhale perfumes too delicate for the earthly nose, O how the heart sings! All drabness, all dullness and all sordidness, which are of the Earth, are left behind. Turn him from the place where these can regather about him.
SCL:1:21 The unmoving, empty body remains here before our eyes; it is nothing, it sees not, it hears not, it speaks not, it smells not, its breath is stilled, it begins to fall apart. There is no life, and the overseer has departed. Nothing remains here with us but this unresponsive thing. The greatness, the feeling, the sensitivity have departed from the body and are now beyond our ken. These are with the real surviving being. O receive him into the life of splendour! We, who are here, stand blinded behind the veil of flesh; we cannot see beyond ourselves; we hope, we believe and we trust. Thus it has ever been with men, for they pass their lives behind a wall of limitations, there is a barrier shutting them in. They are imprisoned within a mortal body. O grant us fulfilment, grant us that which is the ultimate desire and aspiration of men!
SCL: 1:22 We speak for this man. He is one who came with us from afar. He is one who has travelled a long weary road. No taint of meanness stained the purity of his spirit, no corruption of deceit discoloured the garments of his soulself. He has gone over shining in radiant splendour, so even the doomed in their darkness can hope when they sight his distant glow. May it shed some small warmth into their grim coldness!
SCL:1:23 O Great Welcomer, who greets the newcomers, help our departed one. He served well in this place of trial and tribulation; let him not go unrewarded. He is the son of hope. Like us, like those who went before, he hoped as men have always hoped, for this is not a place of certainties. If it were, our heritage of glory would be badly earned.
SCL: 1:24 He lives because it is ordained that he live; he lives, for all men live everlastingly. They die not, they perish not, they endure through ages. His Kohar awaits him and needs hide no awful aspect in shame. Let his face shine in greeting; welcome home the wanderer.
SCL: 1:25 This tombed structure is not a place of finality. The grave is not the goal of earthly life, any more than the soil is the goal of the seed. Does seed die within the ground? Is it planted intending that it be mingled with the soil and lost'?
SCL: 1:26 O Great Welcomer, let your face shine with gladness when you greet the homecoming wanderer. Lead him to the Kohar, which is his inheritance, that he may enter into it and enjoy its embrace. Let him find completion and fulfilment by absorption into his Kohar.
SCL:1:27 Our departed one was the whole part which came forth from the whole, and he returns to the whole. Nothing is lost, nothing is gone. He lives over there, lives more fully than he ever lived. He lives in splendour, he lives in beauty, he lives in knowledge and in the waters of life. He is everlasting.
SCL:1:28 O departed one risen to glory, you are now a released spirit united with your spirit whole, the companionable Kohar, the everlasting one. Arise alive in the Land Beyond the Horizon, and journey to the Land of Dawning; the stars accompanying you will sing for joy, while the heavenly signs voice hymns of praise and gladness. You are not far removed from us; it is as if we were in one room divided by a curtain, therefore we are not sorrowful. If we weep it is because we cannot share your joys and because we no longer know your touch.
SCL:1:29 O everlasting Kohar, take this man of goodness into your eternal embrace; let your life become his life and your breath his breath. He is your own; he is the drop returning to the filled pitcher, the leaf returning to the tree; you are the repository of his incarnations. As you grew there, so he grew here; you are everlastingly, whole, and he lives in you. If he is not even as you in face, let him enter; hide his faults, for they are not many. For this you were fashioned; for this you came into being. You are the overbody awaiting the returning spirit, and the spirit now comes. You are that which will clothe the newly arrived spirit in heavenly flesh. You are that in which
our departed one will express himself.
SCL:1:30 O Kohar, hear us. Here is your vitalising essence; before you were incomplete; now you are whole. Draw your own, your compatible one, to you and observe the many likenesses.We send fragrances, that they may spread around you. Now take the eye, which will perfect your face; it is the perfecting eye, the eye which sees things as they are. See the fluctuating wraith; is it not beautiful? Does it not come with an aura of fragrance, sweetness filling the air? It has been purged of all impurities; all about it is fragrant. Therefore, grant it your substance, that it may become solid and firm.
SCL:1:31 O Kohar, long have you awaited the day of fulfilment, the day of your destiny. That day is here; it is now; therefore, take the spirit, which is your own and enfold it with your wings. Each to his own and to his own each goes. You and he are bound together with unseverable bonds; each without the other is nothing. Now bear him up, for in that place you are greater than he, for you are the generator. While he rested in the womb, you were active; as he grew, you grew before him. If he has done wrong, and who among men is guiltless, then in you let the wrong be adjusted. You are his hope, you are his shield and you are his refuge.
SCL:1:32 This we say to the Brilliant One, the Guardian of Goodness: The departed one has not walked with ignorance; he has not been slothful in carrying the burden of his duty. He has not been swayed by passions of the body; he has not despoiled the house of another; he has not caused undue sorrow, nor has he maltreated a child for pleasure. He has succoured the poor and weak; he has done all that is good; therefore, let none of Those Who Lurk in Darkness seize him. His radiant light is strong; those who would seize him are repulsed by the light and slink away. He lives; he lives forever.
SCL:1:33 He has lived worthily; he has been purified by the fires of earthly life; he has been refined in the furnace of tribulation, he has overcome all earthly temptations. He has lived the life which enhances goodness; he has prepared himself for life in the light. Receive him, O Brilliant One!
SCL:1:34 O Kohar, absorb into yourself the lifeforce; it was meant for you; it is yours. It is the enlivening spirit, which spans the two worlds. He, the departed one, was you, and even more so were you he. Come to him as the Beauteous One came to Belusis, a great king, and gathered him in compassion and love. Come, that he may awaken to new life in your arms.
SCL: 1:35 This man, the departed one, who in unity with you becomes the
Glorious One, was born of a god and is the child of two gods, after the nature of greater men. Now, you are impregnated with the living spirit of he who was prepared by trial on Earth for you. Behold, in unity your twain are now throbbing with life, and your brightness bedazzles the eyes. You are now a Star of Life, a Living Star, and to a star, you shall ascend to rule its life.
SCL:1:36 The departed one is now freed, he is loosed from the bonds of illusion, he is saved from the dark waters of unreality and is one with the Eternal Light. These things we declare, so let them be. Our thoughts mould a new reality beyond the present real, and this becomes the reality of tomorrow.