Our most ancient sacred traditions teach us not to stand in terror of physical death, but rather to beware of the second death. The second death is the spiritual annihilation by which we may be forever severed from the divine Body ― the one true, Infinite and Eternal identity of each one of us, and of all of us together.
The sickness which leads to the second death is APOSTASY ― apostasia in Greek, meaning “to stand apart”.
This “standing apart” takes place in our mind, which succumbs to the illusion of its separateness from the Mind of God ― the illusion of the Serpent of Eden.
Once instilled by the initial “standing apart”, the disease apostasia progresses relentlessly toward ever greater atomization of Consciousness, inciting the divisions of man against nature, nation against nation, male against female, and finally the definitive pandemonium of “all against all”, which we are now fast approaching.