This is the way of the many.
It is only the few who attain to perfect spiritual consciousness while
manifesting in the physical, but these do not have to undergo "the second
death" which is the dropping off of the psychic body, and assuming the
spiritual body. They attain to immortality _in the flesh_, (i.e., in the
present personality).
"Thereupon will come the manifestation of the atomic and other powers,
which are the endowment of the body, together with its unassailable force."
The body here referred to, it must be borne in mind, is the etheric or
spiritual body, which possesses the power to disintegrate matter; the power
to annihilate time and space; so that he may look backward into remote
antiquity and forward into boundless futurity; or as the commentator says,
"he can touch the moon with the tip of his finger"; the power of levitation
and limitless extension; the power of command; the power of creative will.
These are the endowments of the spiritual body with which the disciple is
seeking to establish his identity--that he may overcome the second death
and become immortal _in consciousness_, here and now.
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