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appeared to have an awareness of the Spirit within every man. We see
this in the various rituals of the many cultures that persist to this day
and are known for their antiquity.
An example is in the ritual preparing the body for burial, of
ensuring all exits and entrances to the body are closed, so as to ensure
that no malevolent entity or spirit may enter the body when its original
inhabitant, its spirit, vacates it. There was even a fear that the late
occupant might seek to re-occupy it's recent habitat.
The body may be ritually disposed of to encourage the newly
released spirit to return to its true place - heaven, Summerland, happy
hunting ground, Tír-na-nóg, Spirit. There that word crops up again. In
Ancient Egypt, and in many other countries, the evidence that their
culture recognised a future after death is to be found in burial places,
with food being left for the body to consume during its long journey to
the next world. In some cases a complete entourage were entombed
with their master or mistress, to accompany them, with due ceremony
into the next life. The continuance of life after earth death has always