Death is the inverse stage in the cycle of being as that of life. When in death, the soul is in the ghost state. This is when the being is not inhabiting a physical form and exists in the second world.
On the Nature of Death
A man comes back many times until he reaches true death in apotheosis or oblivion. To seek either alone is folly. Both are forms of the same thing but one is found in memory and the other forgetting. To be remembered is to be a god. To be forgotten is to be released. There is virtue in both paths. Each must choose his own path when the time is right. Trouble yourself not with these things for they are not of the living.
—Anarast 6:14-21
On the Nature of Ghosts
There is a secret world hidden and unchanging behind the visible, located behind the veil. In this world it is memory energy, and will that rule. Intentions have legs. All beings die that live, but none are destroyed. The secret world hoards all intention and outcome. Reincarnation is the death of the soul but so too is its birth in kind. Ghosts are memories of those who lived who no longer. In order to cross the veil into the secret world, a ghost must first lose the layers of the senses and the layers of memory grounding them to the life they once led. Until this happens, they must reside in the world between worlds; the domain of energy and will. This is the nature of fate.
—Anarast 6:22-31
