At each of the gates the goddess was required to pay the price of passage, for the guardians spoke to her: "Strip off your garments, and set aside your jewels, for nothing may you bring with you into this our realm."
There is nothing of this material realm we may take with us into the afterlife. Many of us have heard the saying, 'He who dies with the most toys wins.' Nothing could be farther from the truth. The striving for material aquisition will matter for nothing in the beyond. No matter how fancy the car, how tailored the clothes, how surgically perfected the face or the form, in the beyond... just as in circle... it will matter naught, because in death we are all equal. The realm of death and change calls to us all... to cast off all that we would cling to for a mistaken illusion we call security. Our true security may be found more aptly in knowing that our connection to the Lady and Lord is strong and that Their love for us will never fail.
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