E. A. Koetting - staticfly.net

CHAPTER TEN SPIRITS OF THE DEAD
more subtle levels, like ripples that fade the farther they get from the
point of impact. Although the impression made by the pebble upon the
water (the ripples) will reach the other side of the lake, by that time
they will not be visible to the eye. And so we are Gods making ripples in
the ocean of existence.
Just as the presence of the Godself leaves its impression upon the
physical plane in the form of a body, other such impressions are made
at more subtle levels. Even after the Godself has departed from this
universe, a skeleton remains and grass grows where his body was
interred; the other impressions he has made, those that are usually
unnoticed, also remain. And just as the skeleton may be exhumed once
the Godself has left it forever, the invisible impressions may also be
brought up into visible light, to bear witness of the presence of the
juggernaut that once was there.
While the disinterment of the physical remains is called grave
robbery, the exhumation of the spiritual remains is called Necromancy.
Of the two, grave robbery is often better tolerated. Although the core
entity which made up the person N. no longer exists in a recognizable
form, the impressions that he made upon this universe may be noticed
and interacted with. When the physical body is born, it initiates a
mechanical program that will cause it to grow, develop, strengthen,
reproduce, gradually weaken and eventually die. The physical
impression of the Godself is the only one with such a program, the finer
bodies that once made up the whole person remaining in their places
for the duration of their habitations.
Just as the impression of the human body was in life a receiver,
conveyor, and storage of information and knowledge, the subtler
remains hold the same knowledge, in even more depth than was realized
in life - and those subtler remains do not die and decay, but drift in
their places so long as their places exist.
When the "spirit" of a dead is summoned to visible and audible
manifestation, that astral impression is therefore not the eternal part
of the person that should have passed on to an afterlife, but is instead a
shadow of that eternal being, a ripple that was caused by the presence
of a God.
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