Death, be not proud

 

In the dark ages of the seventeenth century in England, John Donne wrote some metaphysical poetry, including the famous quote: “Death, be not proud”.

His writing is about the ideas of religious dogmas, and the belief that will challenge the philosophy of death, and once afterlife. 

He wanted to ridicule the thought of Christian belief that life is a short story before eternal peace.

He personifies Death and judges it with arrogance and pride because it can take peoples life away. Having pride that people fear is a limitation to nature’s threshold of doorways.

The ridicule of judgment day is already the karmic force that puts the soul back into the sphere of the living.

Death is not as powerful as people would believe because it cannot truly end the spirit of people. 

“Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go.”

 John Donne has remorse for Death just by comparing it to sleep and rest and declares that there can be no physical end to life, when there is an eternal world.

He declares as well that death like to be obedient to people who need to act in despair and make themselves submissive to fortunes and power. Death is only relative to the politics of war and its religion to please the ego.  Heartless people who fear the most are stuck between eternal afterlife and the real world and hold onto everything that keeps them alive to kill and the knowledge of fears.

In the compassionate force of life, death does not have a place in the eternal divine world, and therefore no power. 

“Death, be not proud, though some have called thee, Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; for those whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow.  Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me”. 

It is only death that dies, because all worldly things cannot work alone, to survive eternity. Making Death and pain only a slave and not a Master to function as doors to take souls to where they are meant to be. 

The eternal quest and the source of the living God in all of us prove the reality of the afterlife, which is eternal and the story of the poem. Death is not the end of life, but a life into hereafter. Death is the rebirth and gift from God that gives our spirit an immortal life. It is the ultimate freedom of souls and its virtues of free will. 

“Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well And better than thy stroke; why swell’st thou then? One short sleep past, we wake eternally. And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die”.

 Immortals souls occupy mortal vessels and Death only take humans from their mortal and temporary world to an immortal status.

Fears are the manipulation of the wicked and one has to resonate with courage that there is the possibilities of creating a new life without any insecurities.

Looking at Death with grace and courage is the music to face as it is only a temporary state that never should control once life, then death has no power over humanity.

It is the dead who cause death, the living force preserves life.

Fears and its manipulations are evil and bring only success to the wicked, while in the meantime the virtues of life wins victory for the righteous.

Morality is the flower which reaches beyond the heart, for it springs out of the individuality to love.

The wisdom of life is the way in which to express once life as one has understood it oneself.

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