What is Mystical Death?

Introduction – Don’t Get Scared

I think that it would be useful to clarify this right from the start: mystical death is not physical death. Mystical death is a term used to describe the real and definite transformation of our psychological nature.

Mystical death refers to the death of the many “I’s” or defects that we carry within our psyche. Where we suffer due to psychological factors, mystical death is a balm to heal the wounds and consequences of our errors that make us suffer.

There is the principle: that for something to be born, something must first die. So, for the so-coveted virtues to be born in us, or for the authentic, inner peace and tranquility to appear in us, something must first die. This is something that so many human beings know deep down, but as always, the absence of a precise answer to the question of “how do I do it?”, causes so many to forget their inquietude.

Mystical Death is Transformation

Mystical death is nothing more than transformation. We know that in every process of transformation, whichever it may be (physical, psychological or esoteric) there is always something that ceases, so that something new may emerge.

For example, in nature the seed must die for the plant to be born. There are so many examples in nature, another very simple example is water. When water is boiled the water loses it liquid property and is transformed into vapour. So the liquid ceased to be, only for it to give way becoming something new – vapour.

The guarantee with all the kinds of death is that when a thing dies there is always something else born after it. That is why in Gnosis we say death and life are deeply or intimately linked. For something to be born something must die. As you know, if you know about past lives that is, we are here again on the Earth because we at some point in the past died and nature brought us back to life.

In conclusion here, we can never separate life form death. If there is one there also has to be the other. The reward for mystical death is always the birth of something new. Such as new conditions, a new perspective, new understanding, new awareness, a new kind of inner peace, a renewed love and glimpses and states of authentic happiness.