The Dead
The Dead are not those who pass away and rest in peace in their tombs. They are alive yet will always face the Abyss to meet the Second Death, an inevitable fate that carries more weight than physical death itself. The Abyss, in this context, is not a physical place but a state of spiritual separation from the Divine. The painful dissolution of the Ego marks the beginning of the Second Death. After its completion, no Ego remains, but the Essence escapes the extinct Ego and flees from the Abyss to reclaim all that was lost. Samael Aun Weor's book “Hell, Devil, and Karma – Chapter 13, The Ninth Infernal Circle, the Sphere of Neptune” elucidates the transformation of a living being into a dead one.
The dead are worse than sorcerers and fornicators.
All the dead are and will be our enemies. It is a partial paraphrase of the 1978 film Watership Down.
The dead are those who have permanently betrayed their innermost selves, a crime of high treason or lese majeste. This grave offense, for which no karma can atone other than the death penalty, results in the Essence, taken from the living body, facing the Lords of Karma. The Lords of Karma are the divine judges of one's actions and their consequences. The executioner of the Lords of Karma cast the treacherous Essence into the deepest circle of the Abyss, where it perishes. For the living body, the demon effortlessly replaces the ex-owner of the body.
Yes, you have read it right. A demon can possess the body of an ex-owner. Whenever it does, the demon will ensure that no one can alter its karma through any connections it has with adverse personalities.
No trace of a living essence exists in one who is dead. The dead have no emotions, and they are never caring. The dead are beyond redemption and must face the Second Death. The dead are inert and hopelessly dependent on a dead system and society, which will fight in defense. It is a paraphrase from the Matrix trilogy. The dead system and society is the Black Lodge.
May the dead live forever.
To bless someone to live forever actually functions as an insult. If you have watched 300 and heard of these words, it is the definition I described. It is true for those who are dead to you. It is honorable to die from moment to moment to live. Those who are dead to you have committed countless crimes and refused to redeem themselves. To tell someone to live forever is how one forfeits the chance for redemption and will never receive the honorable death they deserve. Instead, they will live in eternal shame and guilt for their crimes until they die a worthless death. From their worthless death, they will go to the Abyss where they belong.
Therefore, may the Dead live forever to die. May we die forever to live.
In closing, let us take a moment to comprehend the deceased. The deceased are those who pass away via Physical Death, and they sleep peacefully in their tombs. The Essence, which passes away via Physical Death, is never dead. They are alive. It is easy to confuse death with the dead. Anyone who says someone (who is not dead) is dead, tell him that he lies. Surely, the liar is dead. What if someone passes away without Physical Death? It would be called ascension. Ascension is the spiritual journey of transcending the physical realm and entering the realm of the heavens. The ascended are alive, never dead, a beacon of hope, and in the heavenly realm.
I now close with the following, partial paraphrase from Watership Down by these transmuted words: “All the dead will be your enemy—disciple of countless enemies. If the dead catch you altering their karma, they will silence you. But first they must see you—awareness, Comprehension, Adaptation; a disciple who positively awakens. Be aware, comprehensive, and adaptable, and the dead will never be able to destroy you.”