Ancient Mysteries and Mystical Death: Purgatorial Visions and Postmortem Consciousness

whoever believes in me will be saved and will have eternal Life: whoever loves me, loves my Father. Well, O Lord, I believe in you, I love you, I hope in you. Save me! [...] In the phantasmagorical game of purgatory appear the fairies, the heroes, the lords of death, the demons and spirits of various kinds that can be secretions, so to speak, of the mind of the deceased, corresponding to his thoughts and to those of other dead and of all mankind. High and low impulses, passions and super-human and sub-human impulses, which through the cosmic balance take plastic form taking it from the germs of thoughts forming the consciousness of the perceiver. All these apparitions are the reflections, the content of consciousness visualized by the operating personal dialectic. The same apparitions can be real. But which will be the real ones and the illusory ones? Should we ask Zen Buddhism from which we have much to learn? Or our Christian Fathers, like Titus Flavius Clement of Alexandria who knew the mechanics? [...] ANCIENT AND MODERN MYSTERIES AND MYSTICAL DEATH This discourse is important to say that there are techniques to experience these postmortem states while remaining alive. It is the mystery of mystical death and the techniques to obtain apparent death.