Man Know Thyself
Life After Death
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years. To put it another way, nothing whatsoever
remains now of the body you possessed ten years
ago. Your present physique is an entirely new one.
If all the parts of your body severed from you over
the last ten years were to be gathered together, then
another human being identical to yourself could be
constructed. If you are a hundred years old, then
ten “you’s” could be formed which, despite their
exact similarity to you in appearance, would be no
more than inanimate lumps of flesh for “you” do
not dwell within them. “You” have abandoned
these old bodies and moulded yourself into a new
frame.
So the saga of construction and destruction is
constantly being enacted within you without any
evident change occuring. That entity which you call
yourself remains as it was. If you had entered into a
contract with someone ten years ago, you would
continue to admit that “you” committed yourself in
this manner, although your previous frame is now
non-existent. Neither the hands which signed the
contract papers, nor the tongue which testified to it,
are any longer attached to your body. Nevertheless
“you” still exist, and “you” acknowledge the fact
