"Now to return to Jacob, it is written of him that he was asleep, but this is a mystical speech, for it signifies death , namely, that death which the Kabalist calls mors osculi , or Death of the Kiss, of which I must not speak one sillabe" (T. Vaughan, Magia adamica )

"Thou bringest the Living out of the dead, and Thou bringest the dead out of the Living" (The Holy Quran 3, 27)

"I tell you the solemn truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it produces much grain. The one who loves his life destroys it, and the one who hates his life in this world guards it for eternal life". (John 12, 24-25)

"The extreme humiliation of death is the compulsory entry to the splendour of heavenly life, for earthly separation is the beginning of heaven manifested" (L. Cattiaux, The Message Rediscovered 2, 76')