Man Know Thyself
A Last Word
~ 27 ~
A LAST WORD
Just think over everything I have described for a
few minutes. You are destined for an extremely
long and unbroken lifespan. Death is by no means
the termination of this life: it is the commencement
of a new era. Death is simply the dividing-point
between the two stages of our life. Take the farmer’s
planting of a crop as an example. He invests his
capital in it and cultivates it, until such times as the
crop ripens and dries up. Then he harvests it so that
he can use the grain and store it up for his year’s
requirements. Harvest is the end of one phase in the
crop’s development, during which time planting
and cultivation had taken place. Before the cutting
of the crop there had been only toil and expense; it
is afterwards that he will enjoy the fruits of his
efforts.
This is the case with our life also. In this world we
are investing in and cultivating our afterworld crop.
Each one of us owns a field which is either being
cultivated or left barren. We have used a seed
which is either productive or mediocre. After
sowing our crop, we have either attended to it or
