Choosing the Day to Ascend

The Essentials of the Supreme Mysteries says:

Corpse liberation is the transformation of the body, the shedding of one's original nature, the escape and transmutation of one's physical form.

Corpse liberation is not death, but the beginning of ascension. Ascension is no illusion, but the culmination of corpse liberation.

One may entrust one's form to an object, or leave the world behind and stand alone.

Though the body is transformed, the spirit has already ascended to the Ninth Heaven...