In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.
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All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit.
It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.
There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers.
Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.
Death is the separation of soul from body.
The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.
I believe in rituals.
The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
Where I grew up, in a remote village at the back of a valley, the old still thought the dead needed attending to - a notion so universal, it's enscribed in all religions. If you didn't, they might exact revenge upon the living.
Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.
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