Hell

But now let us consider the mental image of the moment of death. We can do this by drawing on the facts available to someone who has applied the methods of initiation to themselves and learned to use the higher senses that lie dormant in human beings. But even ordinary logic can understand this, because these facts are presented in such a way that they can show us the path of human beings through death. At death, something occurs that happens only in exceptional cases during the entire life between birth and death. Throughout life, the etheric body remains united with the physical body. Only in death does it separate from it, and thus the physical body becomes a corpse. It now follows the purely physical-chemical forces from which it was torn between birth and death by the indwelling of the etheric body. This etheric body is, as has often been said, a faithful fighter throughout life against the decay of the physical body, for the physical body has within it the chemical and physical forces. This becomes apparent when it is left to itself after death: it decays, it is an impossible mixture. The etheric body separates from the physical body and remains for a while together with the astral body and the ego.