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LOVE AND DEATH

at peace. Then waking, rise and pray with us, now and in the death-hour, evermore.

The Worship:

Thou terrible dark Night!
Thou, the Night of Delusion!
Thou, the Night of Death!
To Thee our salutation.
Thee we salute. Thee we salute.
Thee we salute.

As a man puts off worn-out garments, and puts on others which are new, even so doth the embodied put off worn-out bodies, and put on others which are new. …

Of that which is born, death is certain: of that which is dead, birth is certain. …

Never is the embodied soul destroyed. …

These bodies alone of the embodied Self,—which is eternal, indestructible, and unknowable,—are said to have an end. …

Know That to be imperishable, by