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Theists: will you ever have a 'love of death'?
Theists: do you think you will ever have a 'love of death'?
One of the central characters of War & Peace, Pierre, is approached by a Rhetor of the sacred order of the Freemasons. In order to join, Pierre must observe these masonic virtues:
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'These virtues were: (1). Discretion, the keeping of the secrets of the Order. (2). Obedience to those of higher ranks in the Order. (3). Morality. (4). Love of mankind. (5). Courage. (6). Generosity. (7). The love of death.
"In the seventh place, try, by the frequent thought of death," the Rhetor said, "to bring yourself to regard it not as a dreaded foe, but as a friend that frees the soul grown weary in the labors of virtue from this distressful life, and leads it to its place of recompense and peace." '
- War & Peace, Volume II, part ii, p. 357.
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A standard affair up to virtue 7. What do you make of this? Do you feel that you could ever embrace death as a beautiful event - even the death of a loved one? What does your scripture say about this?
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- Isa ibn YahyaLv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
I am a Muslim and I look forward to the day that I will die. I love life and cherish it, but this life is very brief compared to the hereafter. This life is called the struggle, because we must constantly struggle to do what is right, which is the true definition of Jihad. I will definitely embrace the day that my struggle is over, and any loved one who believed in God and struggled to do what is right. After we die, we shall all be raised back to life again on the Day of Judgment and the righteous shall be rewarded with beautiful mansions in a garden watered by running streams that shall never pass away. I am sure many religious people, who do good works, do love death and shall embrace it. I can be looking death in the eye and my faith will not waver.
Source(s): The Sacred Treasury - Anonymous1 decade ago
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