A Near Death Experience

I have always been fascinated with what happens after death. Scorpio is the sign ruled by Pluto and Mars. They rule the 8th house of death in astrology. Pluto in astrology is related to death. I have the sign of Scorpio as my rising sign. I was born on 1/1/23 at 2:03 AM in New York City.

At the age of twenty-one I had joined the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC in New York City. My husband, Henry dar Boggia, was a member of that organization.

While several of us members, were having coffee in the cafeteria, Henry, mentioned that he had a near death experience at the age of nineteen. He was out of the body for twenty days. That was enough to entice me to know him better. Months later, I moved in with him and we lived as husband and wife, without the benefit of a legal marriage, until he passed away on 1/11/76.

Henry was born on 3/27/04 in New York City at 3:00 AM. (He was the astrological twin of the writer and teacher, Joseph Campbell. They both have the same horoscope, except for the rising sign, called the ascendant and also except for the Soul's Ray, which is a type of energy.)

When Henry was around nine years of age, his father and mother believed that country life, rather than city life, would be more advantageous for his physical growth. They bought real property in Italy. Henry would climb one of the trees with a slice of bread in one hand and have, as his breakfast, one of the delicious fruits of the many varieties of their fruit trees. Life was beautiful! He would take one bird from the nest of ninety-nine trees, in order to feed and nurture it.

At the age of sixteen he formed his own army and participated in the Italian civil war between the Communists and the Fascists. That war, brought Benito Mussolini to power. That was an experience, fascinating enough to be part of a novel.

At the age of eighteen he joined the Italian army. At nineteen he had a fever and was placed in the military hospital.

While out of the body, he was shown an instrument and was told by his spiritual guide to play it. (He said that there is no instrument similar to it on Earth. The closest type of instrument would be an organ.) He indicated to his guide that he was not a musician. He cannot play it. His guide commanded him to sit and play. He did so. To his surprise, he could actually play the instrument.

Before returning to his body he saw many of his past lives. In a great many lives, he was a courageous, fearless leader engaged in military battles. He saw a statue in Greece erected in his honor for bravery. Years later, we learned that the statue was that of the King of Sparta, who, with his men, were slaughtered, while guarding the pass to prevent the Persian army from attacking Greece. A traitor betrayed the defenders of the pass by informing the enemy of a secret entrance.

Later, when he returned to his body, he was told that his dense physical body was attacking the nurses. The hospital staff had to place his body in a straight-jacket. Apparently this dense physical entity believed that it was at WAR with enemies.

Unfortunately, it never occurred to me to inquire for more details of his near-death experience.

When his father received a telegram from the military, informing him of his son's death, immediately, he and his wife went to visit their son, who had not yet been removed from the hospital. His mother kept calling and calling him. Finally he responded. At first, he did not recognize his parents. He was exceedingly weak. He was told by his Soul the following: "NO MORE CONQUERING NATIONS."

He had six more months, before he would be discharged from the military. He could not wait that long. Through the help of the Mother Superior, he maneuvered his military discharge. While regaining his strength at home, he wrote his first adventure novel at the age of 19 to 20. (Years later in New York City, episodes of his novel were aired on the Italian radio station.)

When Mussolini reneged on his promise to make Italy a republic, Henry, disenchanted with politics, returned to the United States at the time of the Great Depression in 1929. He did not lose his citizenship, since he joined the military before he was twenty-one years of age.

In the Rosicrucian New York City Lodge, there was a female member who was exceedingly clairvoyant. She told Henry that in his last life he was General Joaquin Murat, (who was one of Napoleon's generals.) At first, he did not accept this, but then he recalled, while sitting on a bench in Central Park in New York City, a little four-year old boy, excitedly ran up to him, animatedly calling: "Joaquin, Joaquin", as if to ask, "don't you remember me?" His Nanny had to drag him away, crying.

Then he recalled that, while in Italy he read an article about General Murat. He cut out the article from the publication. And of all the things, that he brought to the U.S. was this article. That was an unusual thing for him to do.

Years later, when I met him in 1944, we had our own radio program on WBNX in New York City, presenting dramas and comedies in Italian and then performing them as 'plays' on the stage for the Italian audience. (They brought with them, their lunch and dinner.) When his radio satire on the U.S. political system was bitterly resented, he was accused of being a Communist. That was when he put his "pen" to rest and we moved to Southern California. This was the period of the "Red Witch Hunt" by Senator Joe McCarthy, when many screen writers became black-listed.

Henry had a certain degree of 'continuity of consciousness'. That is, he could remember who he met and what he did at night during sleep. He related to me all of these interesting experiences, including having sex with a young woman to prevent her from becoming a Nun. When I first met Henry, I was being harassed by a co-employee, who wanted to form a sexual relationship with me. On the psychic plane, Henry gave him a 'good beating'. That was the last time that I was harassed. Another time, when I had difficulty in walking, he healed me, while I was asleep. The next day I had no pain at all. He had a pain, for a split second, in his hip. Another time, when he woke up elatedly, he said that an enormously huge face of a cosmic Being smiled at him. Occasionally, he visited his Father, who was creating the most beautiful buildings in his dream-state in devachan (heaven). On Earth, his Father's unfulfilled desire was to become an architect.

I believe Henry took his first planetary major initiation in his last life in the sign of Aquarius rising. We are told in our esoteric studies that in 2025, millions will be taking this major planetary initiation. This may be the start of a fortuitous period, when the people of the world will demand, through street demonstrations, peace, based on justice, freedom and goodwill. We will be preparing for our destined Golden Age, forecasted by Hindu and Zoroastrian Sages.

In the Hindu prophecy, the Golden Age will start to restore the balance of nature, where there will be no starvation. Then the Messiah, who they call the "Kalki" and who the Christians call "the Christ", the Jews call "the Messiah," the Moslems call the "Imam Madhi" and the Buddhists call "Maitreya Buddha", will be recognized by humanity as the "World Teacher", a Planetary Avatar.² Competition and global domination will end. A new economic system based on sharing the resources of the earth will be implemented by the Disciples and Adepts of the spiritual Hierarchy.

In the esoteric teachings, Henry is known as a "First Ray" Soul. These people are known as a type "to take the Gates of Heaven by storm."

In the Ageless Wisdom teachings, as was known by Pythagoras and Plato we learn of the nature of 'energy'; of the seven major Ray energies and of some of the endless, varied, invisible lives in the universe. The whole cosmos is guided, controlled and animated by an almost endless series of Hierarchies of sentient Beings, each having a mission to perform.

My destiny is to offer the Ageless Wisdom teachings, free of charge, online, to all who are ready to expand their consciousness and to contact their soul. My husband said that his destiny was to take me across the River of Life.

Marguerite dar Boggia formerly served as Membership Secretary for ISAR, the International Society for Astrological Research. She was past Secretary and Director of ISAR and Publisher of Kosmos, the ISAR journal. She was a co-founder of UAC and its past Secretary and Director. Her goal is to serve humanity and the spiritual Hierarchy of our planet. To that end, she offers free, online, three pages weekly of the Esoteric Teachings as was known by Pythagoras. It prepares us for discipleship. To receive these studies, she can be contacted at her website which she created at the age of 90: www.FreePythagorasTeachings.com