Esoteric Lesson

At death, we no longer have our earthly ego consciousness. At the time of ancient Atlantis, people entered the spiritual worlds with clear consciousness, but this was lost in the post-Atlantean era to the same extent that earthly ego consciousness emerged. In the fourth post-Atlantean era, the fear of shadow consciousness, of the unknown state, was so strong that the saying “Better a beggar [in the upper world than a king in the shadow realm]” became common. After death, everything had indeed become shadowy.