Death: And so we meet at last.
Prepare to die.
As seekers on the path to higher knowledge you must die many small deaths. On this path you have become and will become many different people: a child, a teen, a doctor, a husband, a mother, a grandfather, a sage. And you will have many beliefs and attitudes: the skeptic, the victim, the bold one, the griever, the mystic. Each of these personas is but a step to becoming who you really are. When each of these masks no longer serves you, it must die to make room for the next, leaving only its memory and the things it taught you. Letting go of these self-perceptions and beliefs and allowing me to cut them away can be painful and terrifying, but it is most necessary if you wish to evolve as a human being.
And when your physical body ceases to function and no longer serves you, I am the one who cuts away your spirit, freeing it to move on to another life.
So do not fear me.
I am the thing that allows you to become your true self.
I am the archetype of the initiate.
(Death steps to one side and with a sweeping motion of its scythe, gestures for the seekers to continue.)