Below, grave mourners point to the various parts of the dead man, while indicating with their other hands the destiny of each--head or personality vanishes, lower parts are consigned to earth, and heart to heaven. Along the border of the bishop's cope the shadows of himself in other lives pass through his brain. And the flame of solar energy, released by death, burns here and there among the onlookers, now as sex and now as consciousness. For these onlookers are none other than the man himself--in all his ages, all his 'I's.

Above, poised between earth and heaven, an angel already gathers from Christ, Mary and Joseph, the as yet shapeless embryo of another life; while Peter, his keys to the visible and invisible worlds making the symbol of infinity--and all the company of saints look on. And Peter, Joseph, saints and Christ are also he.

-Rodney Collin
The Theory of Eternal Life