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CHAPTER 13

The Seventh Meditation

WHEN I GOT BACK TO MY ROOM I SHUT THE door behind round Seventh Meditation was a ses that had been faded yellow by the sun It left a dusty residue onwithin es were so stiff I worried they would fall out if I turned them too quickly Carefully, I flipped to the first section and began to read

I OF DEATH AND THE SOUL

In these meditations, I will attempt to consider the idea of the Dead as Undead Matters of the Body and Soul are ones that our faithful institutions of government and justice would like to keep hidden Therefore, in accordance with the idea that knowledge should be accessible to all s the little-known facts about Life and Death

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Hus--a Body and a Soul Upon death, a person’s body dies, after which point his soul is "cleansed" and reborn into a new person This is why soh we’ve lived them twice; why a person can often have the same essence as someone who died decades before

The text was peppered with diagrams and sketches--one of the human body; another of the cross section of a hu of a homunculus This, presumably, was the soul I skipped forward to the next section

II OF THE DEATH OF CHILDREN

Theto adults All adults follow the rules stipulated in Part I of this Meditation However, there is one exception When a child dies, his Soul leaves his body Yet, in opposition to our custoical processes of Life and Death, the child does not die Instead of "dying," as adult bodies do, the child’s body lies dorain without a soul The child then wanders the world, searching for it It isyouth a second chance at life They are e call Non Mortuus, or the Undead