Introducing Death – Krishna Venta (Lecture, 11/11/1948)

I hope that the hour and the day will soon come when all the small groups seeking the wisdom of the Father can
unite. If the leaders of those groups can unite one with the other, we will have the most beautiful crusade that has
ever occurred in the world—a crusade of truth and of light. Tonight we have a crusader in our group. He is striving
in his way to be of help and to work among his fellowmen. As I look upon him, I know the trials and tribulations he
has had. I know the battle the man has had within himself. He has had to fight between two laws—the material and
the spiritual. In his own silence, he has sometimes become disgusted. In fact, sometimes he figures, “What is the
use of helping humanity?” But he is on the road. He has a great service to render humanity. If he will speak a few
words tonight, I want him to do so. He is a young man—with a red shirt. (He confirmed the fact that we must all
unite and work together, for we are now at that point where the 144,000 Elect must be gathered, and the War of
Armageddon is brewing. We must take our stand, either with the positive or the negative forces—we must receive
the light, or reject it.) I want you to weigh his words deeply, children. Those who have received the light shall retain
their Bible. Those who have not—who walk in the darkness and shadows, depending upon the worldly things—shall
lose their Bible and shall cry in anguish, because they have not known the light. Be thou wise, children. Keep your
lamps in trim. Work hard now while the sun shines, for tomorrow darkness might reign. Be faithful to yourselves.
Pay no attention to the things around you and what people might say, save that which is good, that which is spiritual,
that which belongs to your life from now through all eternity. I love him. He is in the service. I told you that you know
not who might be in your midst. He is a true crusader, yet he has had trouble striving to get others to follow. But isn’t
that the way with all who are messengers of the Father? Believe it or not, he and I will work together. We will work
for our fellowmen, no matter where or who they are. He will assist—as I am assisting—the Father in the gathering
of the 144,000 Elect. The War of Armageddon is here; you are in the midst of it.

You will rise, or you will fall, depending on which army you desire to follow. Remember, dear children, this army of the
144,000 Elect, and those faithful followers who join with them, will be the minority. You may wonder, “What could the
144,000 Elect do against three billion people? Would they not be destroyed overnight by the power of the multitudes?”
Nay, for those who carry the cross of the Father are protected and directed in their path. They shall neither fall nor
be destroyed. “Peace” shall be their credo. Wouldst thou be one in this army, or wouldst thou prefer to remain in that
other army which depends upon mortal might? Do you think any army could stand one minute against the fire of God?
The fire of God will destroy, not man himself but his ability to perform evil acts. Be good, children. Love ye one another.
Join and serve while you can. It is important. The clock is ticking away the time that will close the chapters of the New
Testament and bring about an added book for the fulfillment of the Second Coming. I don’t know how to reach your
hearts. I pray that I might reach into the coldness of your heart and warm the nectar of purity within your brain and
burn away the fetters that are binding you in your ignorance! If I can reach the portals and knock on every little cell
of your brain and awaken it into action, I will feel like one of your early American countrymen, Paul Revere, crying,
“The battle is coming.” All I can do is give my message and my love. Like Paul Revere, I am telling you, “The battle
is on.” If the messenger departs from you and your door remains closed, the enemy will come and consume you.
Join with us while you can. There are many groups throughout the country rapidly uniting into one for the fulfillment.
There are many philosophical and spiritual groups which have broken away from the dogmas of mortal concept and
social sham. For many, the last war has clearly demonstrated the futility of nationalistic warfare—with unemployment
and the collapse of ideologies the natural conclusion. They have now joined with some spiritual group to fight for the
rights of the Father. Be thou their brothers and sisters. I now introduce Death to you.

When that word is uttered, a shudder goes over you. You are afraid of death. Nearly everyone is. Death has been
clothed with mystery. You do not know what is going to happen to you after you leave this physical body, nor what
lies beyond that curtain. The Church has not satisfied this yearning. Today, death has become almost an obsession
with the civilized human race. When you think of sickness and death—that you might lose one of your loved ones—
fear comes over you. Society has made death a morbid thing, and because of the fear of what lies beyond, we try
to build a beautiful grave for our loved ones. Strangely, dear children, life is a beautiful thing. There is no good that
can be turned to evil. If it is good, it is good—and always remains so. Evil cannot be good, nor can good be evil.
The two are direct opposites—positive and negative. Yet, life is good. Life means life. Life cannot die. If one particle
of life could die, that would mean the Great God who created all things is subject to death. But we know He is only
subject to change, according to His own desire. The life you have within you is a part of that God-flow. Being a part
of the God-life, how then can you die? You cannot die when you are walking in the very manifestation of life. Inside
the house which society has acclaimed is the life of the Father—the real YOU. You have taken up that house as a
means of protection; it is important only so long as you can use it to your advantage in spiritual development. Beyond
that, it has no value. The real you continues somewhere else, as will be explained in the lecture on Reincarnation.
When you cry over the body of a loved one as it is buried, you are weeping over a vacant house! The intelligence
you loved is no longer in that house. Why do you put so much importance upon the body? If you and your loved
ones had developed the telepathic power—utilizing the deeper spiritual laws concerning the Father—you would
have united yourselves as spiritual intelligences. If a loved one desired to move to a new “house,” you would raise
no objection, because you feel no fear when you honestly know there is no such thing as death—only a change
in “houses”—and you would know you could commune mentally and need never be alone.

But we haven’t learned this true concept of communion with one another, depending too much upon bodily association.
So long as you depend upon the body, you will never truly know your loved ones, for everything is intelligence. God
is intelligence. God is not expressing in a mortal body. Therefore, how can you recognize God unless you recognize
the Intelligence? God has allowed the flesh to exist, and the intelligence to depart from the flesh. This proves a parable
—that man is not the intelligence within, but is the flesh, the house, while the intelligence is a part of God. If you can’t
recognize that intelligence so that you might always be united, how then could you know God, who is Intelligence? When
you put importance upon the flesh, that is the limit of your recognition. If you recognized God and knew the Universal
Intelligence, and you were a part of that Intelligence and in the service of God, you would be able to commune with
Him at all times, and with any degree of the Universal Intelligence. If you could converse with the God Intelligence,
knowing it has no earthly body, you would know and understand that your loved ones are a life within the body, and
you would never lose them if you but knew how to commune. With this knowledge, you would love your brother across
the tracks—instead of hating him and entertaining racial and social distinctions. You would realize that perhaps your
loved one had been born into the flesh on the other side of the tracks. Knowing that, you would love all alike. Nineteen
hundred years ago the Master destroyed idol worship and caused man to recognize one God, a Universal Intelligence,
Controller of all things. Today, man has made another idol—the flesh. That idolatry of the flesh is as damnable as
building an idol to a false god. When you love a person enough to make an idol of that flesh, and you cry when he
is gone, you have made a false god and have not known the Father of Creation. This is a curse of the civilized
world only. This particular idol worship has grown since the pioneers first came to America. Those who built the
American empire worked one with the other, loved one another, eating and praying together. Many times mixed
groups slept together, with no thought of immorality, because the flesh was not of importance.

The only thought was in the spirit of a mission, the crusade of religious freedom for America. Families were of equal
status; parents loved, cared for, and corrected each other’s children. There was no worship of the flesh. If you want
to know God, you must realize your family is no closer to God than any other family. All families are a part of God’s
creation. How then can you say that yours is better than others’? If the flesh were important, why shouldn’t you cry
and weep over the war and the destruction that has come over the world, wherein not one, but millions of families
have tasted the loss of their loved ones and the suffering of bloodshed? Do you cry about those millions who have
lost their lives? No! You stand in pomp and glory as man goes out to prepare for another war. Isn’t that contrary to
the laws of God? If we want to introduce death, then we are of the flesh and are material. We recognize death only
as long as we adhere to materiality. The word “death” is very interesting. It is of Egyptian derivation—”DE-ATH” meaning
“of earth.” In other words, when you pass unto “death,” it means the flesh having come out of the earth—made of the
clay of the earth—must return to the earth. When the life intelligence departs from the body, the body returns to the
earth. You had your simple origin in the beginning that perhaps was in the earth, but the real “You Intelligence” is not
of the earth—now, anymore, or forever. “You” have reached above the earth and have been given the earth to control.
You have probably heard the word “Toth” from the ancient Egyptian. In the hieroglyphics is found a male character
carrying a long handle, at the end of which is a spade. On the spade is a mound of dirt. In front of Prince Toth—as he
is known—is the symbol of a coffin borne by four persons, each with the head of a bull. Thus is the symbol of death,
“DEATH.” In carrying the spade with the earth, Prince Toth was symbolizing the taking away of the body. There were
no tears shed, no crying, in the early Egyptian days. They just buried the dead, recognizing the law that the flesh
was of no value when the intelligence—the master of the house—had departed. So they returned the body to the
earth in appreciation for the earth’s allowance of the flesh to have been made, for the intelligence to master.

Prince Toth was always the one who put the first shovelful of dirt on the grave, according to legend. All ministers during
these later ages have used a variation of this law, in saying, “From earth ye come, and to earth ye return,” then taking
a handful of dirt to sprinkle on the coffin. It is a token of respect, telling the earth that that which has come from it—
the body—is being returned. Later, the Egyptians mummified their dead, but it was not done through fear. There is
an important law attached to this ritual. They believed the intelligence, or spirit, went into some greater plane of
God’s kingdom. Only the bodies of the Pharaohs and Kings were mummified. The Egyptians believed when they
found themselves in great turmoil and confusion, unable to help themselves, the great Pharaohs would return to lead
them. They realized an earthly house should be available for the return of the spirit; therefore, they found means of
preserving the bodies of the great leaders, that they might return to their same bodies and not have to bother with
building another house. The process of mummification was not a deification of the flesh. This is comparable to the
mother and father of today who work in striving to build a home—not so much as security for themselves as to have
something for their children to live in. Death meant nothing more to the Egyptians than deterioration—the separating of
each cell in the body, sending it back to the soil, thence to carry on its cycle of development. Death is nothing to fear,
dear children. It is a foolish thing pertaining only to your material concepts. You are in a school—Mortality. This means
you must master the laws of mortality before you evolve to the greater plane of immortality. Having come into this
world, you cannot leave until you have mastered mortality. In your blind faith, because of your traditions, you can say
Christ died on the cross to save sinners, washing away all your sins, and you are thereby worthy of heaven. If Christ
washed away your sins nineteen hundred years ago, why do you continue committing those sins? Evidently Christ
accepted the crucifixion as a symbol to show you one thing only—you must become as he, if you expect to enter the
Kingdom of Heaven. You do not necessarily become the Christ in the Father’s realm, but you must live God’s law in
its simplicity, as He—even to the point of being willing to stand behind your convictions, to the extent of a crucifixion.

This is mastery! This is the reason Christ was crucified. His willingness to accept the crucifixion proved His Divinity.
You might say, “I believe in God, and will stand behind my belief.” However, if the real test of your life against another’s
came, I am thinking you would try to save your life first, because of your fear of death. It is the invisible, the unseen,
you fear. You came into this world, and you cannot avoid going out. No one has the choice of when he is going. Gain
understanding, realizing you are the intelligence of God controlling your physical body, and it is your duty to take care
of your house. Keep your spiritual self clean, for it is a part of the greater Universal Intelligence. Still another word
used by the Egyptians was “Hecko” (phonetic spelling), which is interpreted today as “Hell.” We know there is no
hell with fire and brimstone where you will burn forever. At least, I hope you have developed beyond that concept.
God does not put His hand into the fire. He would not put you into fire, any more than you would put your hand into
fire—because you are intelligence, incapable of physical suffering. “Heelo,” according to the Egyptian word, means
“destruction.” When you go to hell, you go to destruction. Any individual adhering to negative laws or mortal concepts
—thinking more of the flesh than of the spirit—is in hell. He is in destruction. Hell is on earth, and everyone lives in
it daily. Why? Because of their own negative thoughts, their own malice, prejudices, and hatreds—all of which are
negative, all creatures of destruction. When you follow destruction, it too must be overcome. If you do not master
in this incarnate, you have many more incarnates in which to do so. God figures that if you want to take a thousand
or a million years to master this little field of mortality, you may. The intelligence of you, though not pure, is a part
of God and cannot be destroyed. There is nothing to fear—neither hell nor death. The only real death comes when
you have mastered mortality, in which you now dwell. Having mastered mortality, you are ready to give up the cloak
of mortality for the last time to go on into the plane of immortality; thus the plane of mortality ceases to exist in the
consciousness. This means you pass through the second death. The first death was the passing from the cellular
realm into mortality. The cellular realm has ceased to be of importance to you now.

Before you can enter the Father’s Kingdom, you must pass through the second death. When you have cast off the
cloak of mortality, you enter into the second death, which is the first life, or the higher life of the Universal Intelligence.
This is the only time death can be used. What did I say death was?—of earth. So you pass through the second field,
which is mortality. “Heelo,” or hell, you can live in daily. You need not go to your neighbors to find it. You need not
traverse the world to find it. You can find it in your own mind; for when you are unhappy inside, you are in “heelo”
—destruction. Every negative thought is tearing you down. Your spiritual side is prevented from growing, and
happiness is impossible. You cry. You can’t get along with yourself. You endure nervous strain; your family and
loved ones can’t even find happiness being with you. Then you say, “They are to blame.” Is it not strange that
man will always put the blame on someone else? He always thinks when something does not go right it is the
other person’s fault. Whose fault is it? That which I fear most shall come upon me. Therefore, if the thought came
out of your mind, and it came to pass, it was only you who made it so, because you thought it so. For example,
you may be a little upset some days, feeling your mate is going to cause you trouble. As soon as he comes in
the house—while you have that long-drawn, half-moon face, with the curves down instead of up—you carry
that chip on your shoulder. You have a mental picture of antagonism, which travels to him, and that picture is
so strong it irritates him. He responds to that imitation, and your picture has come to pass. So your life and
your home is made one of “heelo,” of hell or destruction! Take inventory of yourself. Do not believe it is the
karma of the past. If it be karma of the past, it is because you were in the past as you are now, and you alone
have to overcome it. Man is what he thinks. No matter what trial or tribulation comes to you, remember it is
yours to overcome. You be master over it, and you will never pass through hell. Concerning death, if you will
understand that you are not the body, and will learn to know the spirit of your loved ones, you will never shed
a tear when they depart from their physical bodies. Why? Because you know you never really are separated
from their intelligences. You will meet them again, for all life belongs to the same source. Just because life
has been divided into many houses does not mean it is not a part of the whole. You must grow to love and
to understand that. I love you all. May God bless you. Amen.