Man Know Thyself
Life After Death
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cremated or thrown into a river depending on the
customs of the people concerned. A few days later,
the body has been reduced to tiny particles and
mingled with the earth in such a way as to be
undetectable to normal vision. We witness daily the
extinction of live human-beings in this manner and
find it difficult to comprehend how a form so totally
obliterated can possibly be revived.
The fact is that the word “man” refers, not to any
such bodily form, but rather to the soul which
inhabits the body. As far as the physical frame is
concerned, we know that it is composed of tiny
particles called living cells. The position of cells in
our body is like that of bricks in a building. The
bricks of our physical structure, or cells, are
continuously destroyed in the course of our daily
lives and we compensate for this loss by taking in
food. Food, once digested, produces various forms
of cells which counterbalance this physical
deficiency. Likewise the human body is constantly
being eroded and altered. Old cells are destroyed
and new ones take their place. This process
continues daily until eventually total renovation of
the body occurs, usually within a period of ten
