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Dead (n.) unredeemed ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠now outnumber the living Christians — so it is time that we accept the dead.

Dead (n.) who ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠received the teaching have been blinded by truth and see by mistake — what they rejected will be most valuable to them.

Dead (n.) came ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠back from Jerusalem, where they did not find what they sought: they want not your blood, but your light.

The Dead (n.) do ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not know they are dead, say the Bardo Thödol, Swedenborg and every small-town medium alike — a universal idea that appears whenever anyone sees a ghost.

Dead (n.) want ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠sacrifice so they can live, and want to live with men because they want to rule: they died still lusting for power.

Dead (n.) are ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the voices of the unanswered, unresolved and unredeemed — they know no more than when they died, and so wait for the answers of the living.

Dead (n.) who ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠died in true belief still find no peace: they forgot something important that should also have been lived — "you did not live your animal."

Dead (n.) look ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠greedily through the empty sockets of your eyes, hoping to gather up through you all the loose ends of the ages; your cluelessness proves nothing.

Dead (n.) must ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠be wrestled in solitude: live the daytime life and say nothing of mysteries, but devote the night to saving the dead — the living are your sole bridge back to the day.

Dead (n.) who ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠besiege us are souls who did not fulfill the principium individuationis — insofar as we do not fulfill it either, they have a claim on us and we cannot escape them.

The Dead (n.) turn ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠malevolent, say the Bataks, because a man's character deteriorates after death — a reading of the fact that persistent attachment to the dead makes life seem less worth living, bringing depression and debility.

Dead (n.) need ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠community with the living — was there ever a time without dead? Only recently have men begun to forget them and to think they have now begun the real life, which sends the dead into a frenzy.

Dead (n.) hovering ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠above their graves finished their lives too soon: they knew no road beyond the one belief had left them on — so they must be taught, so that their life can be fulfilled and they can pass into death.

The Dead (n.) such ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠as a father's spirit are helped not by living "according to the unconscious" in general but by something specific — finishing what he left unfinished, returning the treasure he stole, thinking differently from the philosophy that made him unhappy.