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the sky, that very same vegetation is revived
and the dry land once again becomes a meadow.
In this very same manner, man will be raised to
life after his death. Let us look at this from
another angle. Doubts occur concerning life after
death because our imagination is formulated in
terms of our present physical existence. We
consider the mobile figure outwardly apparent
to us to be the essential human being. We then
wonder how this form can be refashioned and
raised up again once it has rotted away and
mingled with the earth. We observe that when
death strikes, an animate human being becomes
silent; his motion is halted and all his faculties
cease to function. Afterwards he is buried in the
ground or cremated 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 living human beings in this
manner and find it difficult to comprehend how
