The surface of the earth is inhabited by human beings having a share in the three great cosmic kingdoms.

They receive their soul from the heights of heaven, the seat and source of light; their material body is of the earth; and the appearance or outward form by which one human being is distinguished from another at sight--his phantom or shadow--belongs to the depths.

At death, soul, body, and shadow separate from one another.

The soul to return to the place from whence it came, to Heaven, for it is a part of God (of Osiris); the body, to be committed to the earth from which it was formed in the image of its creator; the phantom or shadow, to descend into the depths, the kingdom of shadows.

The gate to this kingdom was placed in the West among the sunset hills, where the sun goes down daily,--where he dies.