This statement is the ending of Gibran's The Forerunner and is clearly (to most spiritual people anyway) a reference to the End Times.

    When Gibran writes about children of night, he is not referring to vampires and werewolves, but to the materialistic people who live in darkness. Those people who refuse to accept that there is something more than the physical world, something spiritual, something beyond the limits of the five senses.

    When the new age dawns, the children of night will die, but does that mean many people will lose their lives? Possibly, but not necessarily. It is possible that some of those children of darkness will be convinced to become children of Light who will help to return the planet to it's original, spiritual state. That is why spiritual people, especially spiritual teachers, are trying so hard in these final years to find those people who have the potential to change, and help them do so. It is why all of us who are working on our own spiritual awakening also have an obligation to help others.

    There is little doubt that the next few years will be a difficult time, but we will get through it by remembering what is on the other side. Like Gibran said, we will laugh in the sun and be deathless. That, of course, means he is talking about the spiritual sun because nothing material can be deathless.