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RBF DEFINITIONS
After Life:
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Finally there was so much know-how, and so much tooling,
and so much resource development that they said, "You know
we ought to be able to take care of the pharaohs and the
nobles but the middle class. That's where you really watch
history opening up. With Greek and Roman history we have a
rich middle class-- also with its mausoleums getting ready
for the after life. Finally, there's so much accumulation
of know-how in the present life that we finally have a Buddha,
and A Christ, and a Mohammed saying, "We have enough now to
take care of the after life of everybody. That really is
a significant moment when everybody is in on the after life.
That begins the whole era of all the great cathedrals, looking
out in every way to help those people get ready for the
after life. Everybody's in. This exerts a very powerfully
operative effect. You see the figure in a black shawl in
those great cathedrals and there's fantastic pathos, and her
eyes light up with ecstacy to think og joining her lost ones..."
-Cite Univ. of Alaska Address, p.6, 20 Apr 172