Talks In Quebec 2004, Page 9

Tragic Things and the Need for Understanding

 

Belzebuub: Sometimes in life, tragic things happen. People get sick, die, loose things that are valuable. This really is an inevitable part of life. We’re born here really to do this work, although, to those who know nothing about this work, well, perhaps for them there isn’t a purpose to it that they know about. Or the purpose is to reproduce, so that the next generation carries on the same thing, with this illusion that individual progress is taking place, or a continuous evolution is taking place. But for the individual in this, in this cycle of life, death is a certainty; it’s something that is unavoidable. We can’t escape from it.

 

So, it’s important to really be able to see further than the physical world, because if we can see no further than the physical world, then tragic things like death are simply overwhelming - that someone who we knew for so long simply doesn’t exist anymore. So, this work is not a hobby; it’s something very, very serious. It involves seeing and understanding things that we can’t see or understand in the normal run of life, and that takes a lot of effort. So, understanding costs us a lot. It doesn’t come cheap. Everything has a payment.

 

Now, if we really want to understand, and find out about life, then we have to have the correct techniques to be able to explore it and investigate it, because it passes very quickly. Before we know it, it can be over. And, no one can say for certain whether they are going to live until the next day. Each day could be our last.

 

If we can manage to see beyond the three dimensional world and to explore what is beyond there, in a very serious way, then we can have a greater understanding to be able to cope with something as terrible as death. It’s only by knowing what is there that we can have a chance. Otherwise, it’s just simply too tragic.