One of the great advantages of cremation--apart from all sanitary
conditions--lies in the swift restoration to Mother Nature of the
physical elements composing the dense and ethereal corpses, brought
about by the burning. Instead of slow and gradual decomposition, swift
dissociation takes place, and no physical remnants are left, working
possible mischief.

The ethereal corpse may to some extent be revivified for a short
period after its death. Dr. Hartmann says:

The fresh corpse of a person who has suddenly been killed may
be galvanised into a semblance of life by the application of
a galvanic battery. Likewise the astral corpse of a person
may be brought back into an artificial life by being infused
with a part of the life principle of the medium. If that
corpse is one of a very intellectual person, it may talk
very intellectually; and if it was that of a fool it will
talk like a fool.[14]

This mischievous procedure can only be carried out in the
neighbourhood of the corpse, and for a very limited time after death,
but there are cases on record of such galvanising of the ethereal
corpse, performed at the grave of the departed person. Needless to say
that such a process belongs distinctly to "Black" Magic, and is wholly
evil. Ethereal corpses, like dense ones, if not swiftly destroyed by
burning, should be left in the silence and the darkness, a silence and
a darkness that it is the worst profanity to break.


KÂMALOKA, AND THE FATE OF PRÂNA AND KÂMA.