Beloved masters, on the earthly plane, humans rejoice at the birth of a child, for it is indeed a miracle of creation, and they mourn the death of a loved one, for they feel the loss of that person from their midst. However, death is also a miracle, and from a spiritual point of view, it is a time of rejoicing, for it is a time of returning to a truer state of being.

We have often spoken of diminished consciousness, and most of you are now aware that the ascension process entails expanding your awareness to integrate all the facets of conscious expression. As you have often heard, you are not just a human being with a soul; you are a wondrous being who has experienced a tremendous variety of physical expressions of consciousness.

In ancient times when you experienced the material realms in semisolid or in solid form to varying degrees (while in the higher-fourth and lower-fifth dimensions, either on Earth or other planets in your solar system or galaxy), you kept the same form for a much longer time than you do now. In fact, you kept the same physical vessel for thousands of years by your timekeeping. The transition process and the relinquishing of a physical vessel at the end of a lifetime were as natural as discarding a suit of old clothes. Death as you now know it did not exist until humanity sank into the density of the lower fourth and third dimensions, and you forgot that your sojourn on Earth was only a very small interlude among a vast array of experiences while on your wondrous journey throughout the cosmos.