216 OCCULT PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH & HEALING
The “silver cord” which unites the higher and
lower vehicles terminates at the seed-atom in the heart.
When material life comes to an end in the natural
manner the forces in the seed-atom disengage
themselves, pass outward along the pneumogastric
nerve, the back of the head and along the silver cord,
together with the higher vehicles. It is this rupture in
the heart which marks physical death, but the
connecting silver cord is not broken at once, in some
cases not for several days.