Death Has No Sting, today’s Sermon and Song from Tyla and Douglas Gabriel

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‘I am pleased and honored today to present an offering from Tyla and myself that is a new project we are broadcasting from our many sites, which presents the teachings of wisdom and love from the Temple of Sophia. Each week we will present a topic that comes from one of the beautiful songs that Tyla has created from the work that we’ve done with our books, articles, videos, and presentations that we’ve been doing for the last ten years.

This new offering of love not only stimulates the mind with ancient and modern wisdom, but it also stimulates the heart through the beautiful, upbeat songs whose lyrics are filled with truth, beauty, and goodness. The mixture of speech, lyrics, and music, stimulates the threefold aspects of the soul: thinking, feeling, and willing. We hope that you will enjoy these offerings and that they stimulate your willpower to tap your toe or get up and dance and sing along with these affirmations of wisdom and love.   

Today’s sermon, or homily, is based upon the song, Death Has No Sting. This particular song was one of the first songs that Tyla wrote that also can be found in the musical that she created called Magdalene – Bride of Christ, which is another love offering that we are making to people so that they can independently work on birthing their higher self through joyously listening to, singing along with, and living the content of these spiritual psalms that help visualize, invoke, and embody the divine.

We are given the injunction many times in holy books to sing a joyful song to the divine. Most religious practices incorporate song and praise through religious music, proverbs, sacred texts, and psalms. These tools of the spirit help the individual attain higher states of consciousness and elevate the spirit and soul of the singer, dancer, or someone speaking, dancing, or healing in the spirit.

 The ultimate intent of spiritual practice is to birth our spiritual self that finds its home in their heart, and to intuitively “know” that we are eternal beings. This is what the core meaning of the song Death Has No Sting reveals in a sensitive and profound fashion.

The number one problem in the world is that humans do not understand life and death. The Tibetan and the Egyptian sacred teachings, as well as many others, inform us that if you do not understand death, you cannot possibly understand life.

In the Tibetan teachings, they tell us that we should think about death, our own personal death, at least ten times a day. As we do, we can awaken gratitude for the precious life that we have now, especially in contrast to understanding the ever-present reality of our ultimate physical death. This daily practice will then, in fact, show the contrast between what we imagine death to be and what life truly is. This awakening to death as a stimulant to understanding life can lead to the desire for eternal life.

Another problem in our modern world is that people fear the spirit, they fear the unseen and the unknown. When we speak about death, we need to understand that we are talking about our spiritual nature entering into the afterlife of the spiritual world. The same spirit-world that modern humans fear the most. Death and spirit go together like two sides to a coin.  

The fear of spirit and the spiritual world can be dispelled by studying a new “Book of the Dead” that reveals the true nature of life after death, and also life before birth. That is what we put in our book Life After Death, Rudolf Steiner’s Book of the Dead, which is an offering we made for Christians in the West who have basically been taught to divorce themselves completely from any reflection on death and the afterlife. In the West, we avoid the reality of death and unconsciously make thousands of movies about killing and murders to numb our soul sensitivities to the question of death, the most frightful of nightmare for a materialist who only considers life to be found on the Earth as a human being in a physical body.

Westerners often imagine that a human being comes into existence because their parents brought them into this world through a biological process. That physical process is the vehicle for the spirit to call down an eternal soul from the spiritual world. In fact, human beings were created at the same time that the cosmos (universe) was created. The intent of enlightenment is to realize that human beings are immortal. Enlightenment is a golden moment of illumination that bridges the physical and spiritual worlds through consciousness.

As we have shared in our trilogy, The Gospel of Sophia, the being of Sophia is the being of Wisdom who works with a very high spiritual hierarchical rank called the Kyriotetes, who, essentially created and sustains the entire Cosmos of Wisdom that we attempt to witness standing here upon the earth, looking out towards the stars. That Wisdom, and every time we say Sophia we are saying Cosmic Wisdom, is the foundation upon which the entire universe is built. But Wisdom needs the cosmic force of Love to bring life into existence, and we call this Love, the Being of Christ.

In all of Tyla’s songs and in our books, articles, and videos that we have presented, anytime we say Sophia and Christ we are referring to Wisdom and Love; what we sometimes call Sophia Christos. Rudolf Steiner indicated that we should focus our spiritual development upon the Wisdom of the Cosmic Christ – Sophia Christos.

When we speak about Sophia Christos, we are actually addressing the larger questions concerning spiritual evolution that extend far beyond death and birth.  The past and the future are linear expressions of spiritual realities that are beyond space and time. The awakened, enlightened soul that is wedded to their own higher spirit transcends space and time limitations through consciousness. Your individual consciousness existed before birth and will continue to embody a continuity of consciousness once the limitations of the physical body have been overcome.

When we are incarnated in the physical body on Earth, we have contracted our spirit from the spiritual world and condensed our soul and spirit into a physical body. We are congealed and crystallized out of the entire cosmos. Each human being, each “I Am”, each individual personality that can grow into a Christened being through their supersensible heart is, in fact, an exact copy of the universe in the making.

Materialistic scientists tell us that when we are looking out into the starry realms we are looking into the past. Actually, in a very real way that is true, but not in the way astrophysicists imagine it. When we look into the outer world, we are looking at the past gifts of the spiritual hierarchical Beings of Wisdom, and other spiritual beings, who have made this universe for us so that we can stand on Earth in our present time.

Modern human beings often pay little heed to the past. They ignore history. They don’t acknowledge the fact that they were alive before they were born and that they themselves drew their parents together so that they could be born into this realm of the present, out of the realm of the past. And, as we look towards the future, we also have as little understanding as we demonstrate towards the past.

We fear the future. We fear what is to come after death. We fear most everything. But as Rudolf Steiner tells us, the biggest fear in the materialistic modern age is the fear of the spirit. Why is this so?

The spirit is frightening to us because we cannot, at this moment in most cases, utilize supersensible organs to be able to perceive that which is beyond the threshold between the physical and the spiritual worlds; in other words, the threshold of death.

Most people cannot see, nor do they want to see, the threshold of death. That lack of Wisdom makes them ignorant of the spirit and thus they fear it. Many live in fear and terror of the future, and humanity, as a whole, also fears the innumerable threats that bear down upon us like weapons of mass destruction and toxicity in every aspect of the human being’s life from air, water, and food and it seems like everything around us is attempting to kill us. The reason for this is because humanity, as a whole, is being forced across the threshold of death, whether we like it or not. We are made to face death at every moment and yet people are not trained and prepared to face this threshold. Ultimately, some go numb and unconscious while others live in fear and terror.    

When we come to the threshold of death we need to have developed faith in the spiritual world and the beings who wish to help us cross the threshold and gain our eternal inheritance. But each night as we go to sleep, we enter the same spiritual world that we enter at death and we often unconsciously cross that threshold in ignorance and innocence. But when we go to sleep, we are basically forgiven for our ignorance, and our dreams try to educate us to the spiritual reality all around us in life, sleep, and death.

In the morning, when you wake up, you may be given gifts from the spirit, but only if you have been “awake” during the night. The same thing happens after death. If you do not have the ability, which you should be doing every single night, to review your day’s experiences in backward order while awakening your conscience to exactly what you have done during the day, particularly from the perspective of other person’s experience of you, then you will be more “awake” in your dreams. As you review your day backwards in this fashion, it is not what you imagine you thought, spoke, and did that is important, but how you affected others that is the important aspect. If you do not do this review and you go to sleep unconsciously, trying to ignore the unkind deeds that you do each day, everything that you did that is not pre-digested through prayer and meditation becomes a force that builds karmic indebtedness. This indebtedness is accumulated from the past and brought before your consciousness as you sleep. Your dreams are actually a digestion of the past. If you can awaken to that before sleep, as you are on this side of the threshold of sleep and death, then you are practicing each night what also happens after death. If you are not afraid to go to sleep at night because you have reviewed your day and you have discovered that you have said this wrong thing or thought that wrong thought or have done this wrong thing, then your conscience becomes your judge and directs you to correct the mistakes.

If before you go to bed at night you make a resolve that you will correct those things the next day when you wake up, karma is mitigated and immediately resolved by taking the right action indicated by the nightly self-reflection. The same thing happens to you between death and the next birth. You must digest the past karma through self-reflection. That is what happens when you go to sleep and when you die.

Scientists call that nightly review of your day that automatically happens to the muscles of your eyes when you fall asleep – Rapid Eye Movement (REM). Rapid Eye Movement occurs naturally as you are reliving your day in a backward order. In other words, you are moving backwards into the past when you fall asleep. This backward motion is extraordinarily disconcerting to many people, and that is the reason they cannot maintain coherent consciousness as they are going to sleep at night and why they do not believe they will be alive and conscious after death. Sleep is a practice for death.

It is often said that sleep is death’s little sister. It is a rehearsal for us, and if you can exercise your conscience in this way, you may begin to awaken supersensible organs that can perceive and witness the unseen world of dreams. When this happens, you will learn to not fear death because you will understand that the human being, when it is in a body, has descended out of the spirit into the present from the past. This is evident because your body is a gift and a donation from the past. Angels, Archangels,

Archai, and all the other spiritual hierarchies who have created this beautiful temple of the human body for you give it to you as a home for your individual consciousness. The body, soul, and spirit are a Temple of Wisdom, the Temple of Sophia. And if you can use that temple properly each night when you go to sleep, you can expand into the spiritual spheres above and around us which are often referred to as multiple dimensions or levels of heaven. They are also spiritual hierarchies that manifest through higher virtues and forces and are truly the beings who create, destroy, and maintain the cosmos and life on Earth.

These higher beings have a tremendous interest in everything you think, feel, and do. This is true because our moral thoughts, feelings, and deeds are actually gifts that you are making to the spiritual world as a form of spiritual nourishment. For instance, each night when you make your offerings to the spiritual world, if you have done good deeds throughout the day, then you wake up refreshed and feel inspired to do more good deeds the next day. The simple reality is that the same thing happens when you die. But unfortunately, because people do not believe in life after death, for a variety of reasons, like fear, doubt, and hatred, they often wake up from a sleepless night or a night of sleep that does not refresh the soul and empower the spirit.  

In the realms of sleep and death, if you have little to offer, then you have little to gain. What you take into the spirit world at death provides for what the spiritual world can offer you for the next time you are incarnated on Earth. It is a give and take situation, a breathing process of karma and spiritual rewards given through the good graces of the spirit.  

This breathing process after death expands your soul into the spiritual world as it traverses the heavenly spheres to deposit your gifts into the different realms of the spirit world.  We expand outward through Moon, Venus, Mercury, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and then turn around after we reach the rings of Saturn where we reverse our direction and contract back through the spheres to the Earth. That is our new future, our next incarnation as a human being on Earth. Your future karma works with spiritual beings to create a new body out of your past deeds as you are moving towards condensing into a physical body again.

This process, once it is understood, dissolves the fear of death because you can realize that death has no sting due to the fact that the cosmic Being of the Sun has incarnated on Earth in a human body and shown us that death has no power over an immortal being of spirt. Death is not an end; it is a birth that has no sting.

Through in the eyes of a clairvoyant observing the moment when a human being dies, the spiritual world appears to be rejoicing at the birth of a new citizen of the spiritual world. To the spiritual world, death is not a sad event, it is a joyous homecoming. All of us on this side of the threshold of death might be sad that we won’t see that person anymore nor have physical communications with them. But we still have a living interaction with them after they die because as they expand out into the harmony of the spheres recapitulating their life, each time they relive an interaction with you, you can once again experience that interaction. They themselves are receiving the karma of that interaction as the living environment they find themselves within. If they loved you, they get love back in return; but if they hated you, they get hate in return. It is truly as simple as that. What you sow, so shall you reap.

As a natural-born clairvoyant, I have followed many people across the threshold of death and sleep to witness what they are experiencing on the other side. You can also cross the threshold in deep meditation, prayer, and spiritual exercises that carry you across the threshold consciously. I have witnessed numerous people die, both relatives and friends. As I sat there watching them pass over the threshold, I could confirm what is described in the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, and many other texts from ancient, sacred wisdom. These sources tell you exactly what the person is going through, and how much merit, how much spiritual good karma, they have accumulated by exactly what you perceive as death approaches and at the moment of death. As a matter of fact, the most important page of your biography is the moment of your death. How you die tells more about you than probably anything else that you do in your life.

The moment of death for some people is a moment of great spiritual rejoicing if they have a firm faith in the eternal and the fact that their consciousness does not actually die. We are all eternal beings who do not die, and we have numerous human incarnations until we perfect ourselves and perfect the Christen soul in us, the higher self that lives in your heart and evolves to the point that it knows it is eternal and has already conquered death through consciousness.

I can say from direct experience that I do not fear death because I have witnessed what happens to people when they cross the threshold of death. Death is a reunion for those who are working virtuously here on the Earth. It is a spiritual celebration that is the culmination of the person’s entire life. Death is something we should all look forward to as a homecoming and reunion of kindred spirits.

We are often asked, what do we think about people who have had near-death experiences? Since I have had three near-death experiences, two of them, while under medical care and well-documented, I can speak from experience and from being able to supersensibly witness what others go through on the other side of the threshold. My experience is much like the commonly recounted experience that so many others have also had. It is essentially the same experience but told from the religious perspective of the individual. Essentially, you go through a tunnel of brilliant light with music playing all around you. That initial perception is a direct experience of the etheric body of the individual. Generally, at the end of the tunnel of light individuals describe exiting the tunnel into a vast area of warm, glowing light that is familiar and seems to be a direct part of the individual – not separate but united with the entire atmosphere.

Then, in the majority of cases, people say they see their relatives coming out of the light and walking towards them. These friends and family are in a similar form thata they embodied when they knew them, accept now, they are luminous and very happy. This is not heaven, this is a realm called kamaloca where they will experience all of the things they experienced on Earth. In other words, the past is coming to meet and show them the karma the individual created with those people in the past. This experience is so overwhelming, to find the karmic consequences of your past deeds, that many people feel as if they understood little about life as they were living it. They immediately want to go back and have another chance to do it better. This desire often causes the individual to return to their body with a new impulse to appreciate life more and to truly live the virtues that accompany the golden rule – do unto others as you would have others do unto you. 

Often the people who come back will tell you that they were shown what their actions on the earth really became in the spiritual world, especially in relationship to the people they know and love. This type of karma can only be created and resolved between people while they are incarnated on the Earth. Thus, free will is not available to those who have died, only to those who are incarnated on the Earth. Whatever relationship you had with people who have passed over the threshold of death continues after death. The only difference is that they are reliving the past and you are moving into the future with the possibility of free will.

Most people who have near-death experiences and come back will tell the story that they were sent back for a variety of reasons. Usually, one reason was to tell other people that there is, in fact, life after death. That essentially means that they “know” and are completely convinced that there is life after death and thus their spirit is immortal. They now know for certain that they are eternal beings and they are sent back to tell others to not fear death because each of us is an eternal being. Another common message is that the grace of the divine midwives the transition of the one who dies into the world of spiritual beings who love and care for them.

The two times I died while under a doctor’s supervision happened because a doctor had ejected me with something that I was allergic to and it killed me. Then, they had to administer another shot to get my heart started again. I have personally experienced what most people describe in near-death experiences: the bright light of the tunnel, moving towards the end to greet the ones you love who are there waiting for you with joy and open arms, getting many answers to your questions, and becoming convinced that you know you come from that spiritual world and return to it after death.

We should try to remember what these spirits say to us as gifts of grace from the divine.  After a near-death experience, sometimes people can’t wait to die so they can get the answers to all of the questions that they can’t get answered here in a physical body on the Earth. Generally, the stories that are told simply come down to one virtuous axiom: the golden rule of, “love God and love your neighbor as you love yourself.” Karma is simply knowing that what you sow, so shall you reap. How you treat others creates your karma; therefore, everything should be done out of love. The universe runs according to the golden rule. It is truly as simple as that. But because we are locked into a dualistic, linear expression of space and time, and because our consciousness is so undeveloped at this point in spiritual evolution, we often cannot understand just how simple life is when divine virtue resides in the human heart.

The moment that you know that you are an eternal being, you have become enlightened, if you truly believe it. Besides a near-death experience, what can give you that faith and confident belief? People often want “signs” to convince them there is something beyond the physical, material world. They might even want someone to come back from the dead and speak to them in one way or another. This fearful desire may lead to seances or rituals to contact the dead or ghosts or spirits from the unseen world.  Usually, these ventures only lead to experiencing the astral shell of the dead, not the soul and spirit that goes on living in the spiritual world. The actual person they may be wanting to contact is moving on and going through what they need to go through after death as they digest the past.

So, if you are hoping to communicate with the dead, it is quite easy to do. You simply time it so that what the so-called “dead person” is experiencing as they relive their past life is timed with your prayers and meditations to intersect with the last time you met with them. Then, much like Roman Catholic prayers for those in purgatory, your love and prayers help your loved one digest their karma. You can also forgive them for any offenses, and then, the karmic relief is immediate.

If you are aware of the spiritual timing of kamaloca’s after life review (one third of the life of the person moving backwards in time), then, as they are going through their “rewind”, they may actually be saying to themselves, “oh, I wish I would have treated that person differently.” And if you are simultaneously experiencing the same event, you can bend time and space and transform karma through forgiveness. Through communication with the dead, we can become time-travelers resolving the past and building a better future.

There is really no such thing as the past, the present, and the future for those who

are immortal. So, when you hear about praying for people in limbo, in purgatory, that is what they are talking about, mitigating karma. We can go through the same re-lived

experience with people who have died, but this time in perfect love, in perfect forgiveness, and through the grace of higher virtues. Thus, your intervention basically gets them through purgatory and onto the path back to heaven.

The Roman Catholic Church says that if you say specific prayers, it can keep you from being in purgatory for a long time in between heaven and hell. This is also true for praying for others who have died. If you say prayers, you can shorten their time in limbo and help in the awakening of consciousness. This is the way the ladder of heaven works.

Since these interventions and communications with the dead happen all the time, we should waste no time in preparing for the crossing of the threshold, both for ourselves and those we love. Since these mechanisms of karma do exist, we can directly realize that space and time do not exist beyond the threshold and that the Lord of Karma can dissolve, redeem, and resolve all past, present, and future karma. Christ is now the Guardian of the Threshold in our time and the Lord of Karma. Our Christened spirits are made of the same love as the Guardian and Judge of Karma. If we know Christ in our hearts, then the threshold is no longer a barrier, it becomes a bridge to merge life and death, the physical world and the spiritual world. If we develop a relationship to our higher self, and we have digested all the doubt, fear, and hatred that we have in our soul, then, our Christened soul no longer retreats from the threshold of death. If we review our day nightly before we go to sleep, or our life before we die, then Christ will carry us across the threshold like Saint Christopher carried the child across the turbulent river. Then, when we face death, it will have no sting.

Tyla’s spiritual song, Death Has No Sting has been used by numerous people who sent it to dying people who were not generally inclined toward the spiritual. This song not only comforted the person who sent it but also comforted the person who heard it because it is a joyous song of victory that tames death’s fear and sting. It is a resurrection song of eternal life preaching the “eternal gospel” of the apocalypse, what is also called the “new song.” It is a song that sings the Wisdom and Love of the cosmos and preaches the eternal nature of the human spirit called the Eternal Gospel.

Death Has No Sting is a gift that Tylea and I would like to make to each subscriber to bolster them to face the mysterious forces of death. You can look forward to other songs from Tyla, and a sermon extrapolated from these sacred psalms. These are our love offerings from the Gabriel’s which will be released once a week. You may also find a book, an article, or a video to add to the offering. In this week’s case, it is our book Life After Death – Rudolf Steiner’s Book of the Dead.

If you are following along with our offerings, you can also find a most marvelous musical Tyla and I have produced called Magdalene – Bride of Christ. This musical reveals the hidden origins and provenance of the Holy Grail blood mysteries and relics. The Science of the Grail is a gradual, step-by-step process of self-initiation in our age that leads to the realization of human immortality. You do not need a guru, minister, or priest to self-initiate yourself into these mysteries of Wisdom and Love. In our age, we cannot use somebody else’s ego to develop our own ego (“I Am”). Your “I Am”, your ego, can only be developed by you out of your own initiative.

Through self-initiation, you come to understand that your “I Am” is eternal. Then, you become aware of the reality that you are sacred and divine and that you are a part of a community of spiritual beings that inhabit the Harmony of the Spheres that we all transverse during sleep and after death. The greatest concern of the spiritual beings who live in those realms is to receive from you the virtuous, moral food that you have to offer them so that they, in turn, can offer you the spiritual food you need to not only enhance your spiritual development but also to provide you with good health, prosperity, longevity, synchronicity and a direct and unshakable faith in the spiritual world and the spirits who live there.

Courage to face death and the unseen worlds requires a strong foundation in faith that is not based upon unknowingness, but rather, from boundless faith based upon knowing the truth through experience. Once you know the truth, it is impossible to no longer see it, it becomes self-evident. When you comprehend that the entire created world we have here in the material realm is actually the combined gifts and donations of spiritual beings who are expecting us to resurrect and disenchant matter from its frozen spell and take it back into the spiritual world through our own higher perceptions, through our own moral thoughts, feelings, and deeds. Then, we realize that the entire spiritual world is manifesting both this dead material world we know and the living spiritual world beyond our material senses and we finally understand that death in the material world is birth in the spiritual world. When we see life and death for what they are, then, we understand that we are part of a grand design, the Divine Plan, and it becomes self-evident that death has no sting.

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