To Those Who Mourn

To Those Who Mourn

(an excerpt)

For that is the real truth; man is a soul and has a body

the body is not the man; it is only the clothing of the man.

What you call death is the laying aside of a worn-out

garment, and it is no more the end of the man than it

is the end of you when you remove your coat.

Therefore you have not lost your friends;

you have only lost sight of the cloak in

which you were accustomed to see him.

The cloak is gone, but the man who wore it is not;

Surely it is the man that you love and not the garment.

C.W Leadbeater