The Distortion of Gnosticism and The Transitional Process of Death

The Law of One, Book III, Session 51

Questioner: I am unsure as to whether this will provide an avenue of questioning that will be fruitful, but I will ask this question since it seems to me that there is a connection here.

On the back of the book, Secrets of the Great Pyramid, there are several reproductions of Egyptian drawings or works, some showing birds flying over horizontal entities. 

Could you tell me what this is and if it has any relationship to Ra?

Ra: I am Ra. These drawings of which you speak are some of many which distort the teaching of our perception of death as the gateway to further experience. 

The distortions concern those considerations of specific nature as to processes of the so-called “dead” mind/body/spirit complex. 

This may be termed, in your philosophy, the distortion of Gnosticism: that is, the belief that one may achieve knowledge and a proper position by means of carefully perceived and accentuated movements, concepts, and symbols. 

In fact, 

the process of the physical death is as we have described before: 
one in which there is aid available and the only need at death is the releasing of that entity from its body by those around it and the praising of the process by those who grieve. 

By these means may the mind/body/spirit which has experienced physical death be aided, not by the various perceptions of careful and repeated rituals.