Show Life and Death a Unity Life Is a state which follows upon death Death Is a state which pre pro precedes cedes redes des life Which of us understands the laws that govern their succession The The life life liCe of man is the resultant of forces The aggregation of at these forces i 1 is life their dispersion death If It then life and dea death death h are but consecutive consecutive tive the states of oR existence what cause for sorrow hn have ve I n And so It is that all things are arc but phases of or unity What men delight in is the spiritual es essence ence of ot life lire What i they loathe Is the material corruption I of ot death But this state of corruption tion gives place to that state of ot spirituality spirituality spir spir- and that state of spirituality gives place in turn to this state of ot corruption Therefore we may say that all in the universe is comprised in unity and therefore the ID inspired among us have adopted unity as their criterion H. H A. A Giles in Translated Gems Oems From Chinese Literature |