All human endeavor is temporal, and in clinging to this temporality we have become mortal and subject to all the biological properties of the earthly plane—one of the most prominent of which is decay. All matter decays, and though we are, in truth, eternal beings, to the degree that we associate and identify ourselves with the earth’s temporal materialistic properties, we take on the tendencies of these properties. In other words, we too become subject to decay—the ultimate expression of…..