you shall see: and the fetters of death shall
fall from you.'
CHAPTER VI
Within this earthen vessel are bowers and groves,
and within it is the Creator:
Within this vessel are the seven oceans and the
unnumbered seas.
Kabir.
When the brain dies it is resolved in the ordinary way gradually, or may be resolved in a laboratory quickly, into its constituents, which the chemist may collect as water, carbonic acid and so forth, together with, roughly, a few pinches of ash. Nothing is lost of what, as we say, it was made of. After death it is left to fall from its temporary high estate of power, and travel along the line of least physical and chemical resistance to the low estate from which life had raised its matter-stuff. Material necessity, such as we picture it, then resumes its sway; physical laws, that is, let us say, established physical habits, dominate once more.