¶ After Life
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After Life:
"… 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 ecstasy to think of joining her lost ones…”
