{The Triangle of Death}[6th October 1987]

[Redbook4:114-115][19871006:1020k]{The Triangle of Death}[6th October 1987]

19871006.0110

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The Cord or Lifeline* analogy inevitably leads one to think in terms of a straight progression of Deaths. But in Circle terms the symbolism is rather different. **Each Death has its own station on the Circles, and to the extent that an Individual has not passed the appropriate transit of Circles before the practical Death, he must do so afterwards.

[Text of ms diagram (arrows & other lines not shown):]
			(Christ Raphael)
				(Self-Soul)
			C
			2nd Death – of the Self
Avenger of God against the World of the Luminaries	Raguel	R	3rd Death – of the Soul	S	Sariel	Avenger against the Spirits who sin in the Spirit
			(Spirit- Soul)
*** Recording Angel	(Gabriel)	G	PARADISE	M	(Michael)	Captain of the Heavenly Hosts
Guardian of the Souls in the Underworld – whom God has set above those who rise.	(JeRemiel)	J	PURGATORY	U	(Uriel)	Leader of the Heavenly Hosts (i.e. 2 i/c); Guardian of the World & the Underworld
			A
			HELL
			1st Death – of the Body
			Azrael
			Angel of Death

The rather sinister inverted isosceles triangle symbolises the relationship of the three Deaths: underpinned by Azrael, the Muslim Angel of Death, who initiates the process of dying with the 1^st Death.

To the extent that a Self has not already done so, it rises by Jeremiel from the Underworld – suggesting rather strongly that Hell is our ****World, at the base of the Outer Circle. This rising sensation has been noted near to death.#

By Gabriel the record of all his life is 'run over': this high-speed playback has also been noticed by persons near to death.

(But more mundane explanations are available for both#* these reported phenomena.#*)

It is by Raguel that the process of Turn and Return is initiated in the 2^nd Death, of the Self: with the last failure of the supporting Brain, the Soul cuts free and “divides”.

*{ref. c.[[Redbook4:106-109][19871005:2320i]{The Life-line}[5th October 1987],c.]108ff.}

**cf '[2]'

***(cf. [[Redbook4:7][19870705:1745g]{Archangels (1)}[5^th July 1987]] p.7 Marginal Note['#'].) [This reference presumably applies to all entries in the first and last columns of the ms diagram and the text table.]

****(material) <891001>

#if it comes to that,

(a) the approach to Death is often described and (I suspect) felt in terms of descent: 'He is sinking fast';

BUT (b) the point of Death seems to be seen as a manifestation from above, not at all a final descent into into an abyss.

(i.e. by onlookers) (or is this idealised?) <930502>

#*{The order of these may be reversed.}

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