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Chapter 25
The fear of death is due to ignorance
As the senses of the ordinary terrestrial human being are not yet sufficiently strong to enable him to acquire the analysis of his I through his own experience, and as he, as a consequence of this, is cut off from being conscious of his immortality, all spiritual existence for this being is still only a matter of belief or a theory.
It is therefore inevitable that his conceptions and ideas about life stand or fall with his physical body.
As there will come a day when his physical body will be worn out and its interaction with the other bodies can therefore no longer be maintained, it will, as already stated, be separated from the I and become visible as a "corpse".
As the individual believes himself to be one with the said body, he does not look forward to this event with joy but rather very much with fear.
Indeed, this fear can sometimes even develop into raging terror.
He does not understand the situation and believes that the process of death is the incontestable end of him, his total annihilation.
As the terrestrial human being thus believes that this process or "death" is an annihilation of the individual or a complete end to his existence, it is not only his own meeting with this process that he anticipates with terror but also of course the contact his loved ones will have with this process.
So when this process strikes one of these loved ones, the survivor mourns and clothes himself in sorrow.
Indeed it would be absolutely in contravention of the prevailing moral code if he or she did not mourn.
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