There are two possibilities of a first death. One is when a person dies emotionaly or intelectualy. Such a person loses their opportunity to grow. They are completely and without any escape under the mercy of the incidental. Their essence is dead while their personality and body are alive.
The other possibility of a first death is of course the conscious death to yourself. As appears in Ouspensky's book, In Search of the Miraculous. This is the breaking of the personality egg shell, so that the more fragile protected Essence can come into expression.
The second death is the "real" death, the inevitable death of the body.
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