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04-136
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"Not only must you use your abilities
after death, however, but you must face up to yourself for
those that you did not use during your previous existence."
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04-143
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"Then there is a period of self-examination,
a rendering of accounts, so to speak, in which they are able
to view their entire performance, their abilities and weak
points and to decide whether or not they will return to physical
existence."
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05-121
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"Is it nothing that we tell you that words
and deeds are as the pebble thrown into the stream which causes
an ever-widening ripple, ceaselessly enlarging in its effects,
and that for such influence you are accountable; that every
word, every act, is of incalculable import in its results
and influence; that the good which your influence produces
is to you a source of gratification hereafter, while of the
ill you must view the baleful effects in agony and remorse?"
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06-85
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After souls arrive back into their soul
groups, they are summoned to appear before a Council of Elders.
While the Council is not prosecutorial, they do engage in
direct examination of a soul's activities before returning
them to their groups.
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08-37
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"If you have done wrong things
you soul
will know this. When it returns home, that knowledge will
sadden your soul and it will grieve for those wrong things
that were done.
It will be helped through this period of
suffering by those other souls whose work it is to help in
the transition
God does not punish. He waits."
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09-241
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"Consciousness is its own judge. So there
must be individual unhappiness - until that consciousness
is appeased."
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07-87
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"Eventually every soul arriving in the
astral world will gravitate to the level that it had earned
for itself through its actions and deeds upon the earth plane."
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11-170
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"A master who had been cruel to his slaves
might become a slave in his turn, and undergo the torments
he had inflicted on others. He who has wielded authority may,
in a new existence, be obliged to obey those who formerly
bent to his will. Such an existence may be imposed upon him
as an expiation if he has abused his power."
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13-27
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"[The soul of the cruel man] becomes gradually purified through
his identification with the sufferings of his victims."
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19-340
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"The spirit of the hangman, the murderer, the wrongdoer,
is related by strongest ties to all his criminal acts on earth,
to all that he has made miserable on earth; and
so the spirit
of the wrongdoer hears in itself an image of all connected
with his wrongdoing, continually revolving upon his inner
consciousness, and though locally in purest heaven, his relations
to his earth life make for himself the gloomiest hell. Thus
he hears the carpenters erecting a scaffold and the avenging
words of the one he hanged, and feels the pangs of the bereft
home which he made desolate."
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20-227
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"When one comes here, one enters into the judgment directly
one becomes conscious; and no other person could be so severe
or just a judge of us as we ourselves can be when facing the
truth. For many it is a terrible hour."
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21-26
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"The story of my life was being told
the impression made
upon my mind was as if all senses had united in one grand
effort to place my past life in its true phases before me.
I sat appalled and dismayed."
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26-124
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"Death does bring a man into his own estate. That is,
he sees his own characteristics and abilities in a clearer
light and after the first shock of surprise he usually views
himself with a more generous, lively compassion than he did
before."
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30-12
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"Here, there is no compulsory confinement, and no punishment,
except what you mete out to yourself!"
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30-19a
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"There is no compulsion, of course, to review one's past
life on earth as soon as one arrives and the new life here
begins. Some take a long while to tackle the problem. They
dread to see the effects of mistakes and failures."
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30-19b
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"Somewhere in the depths of my mind two "blueprints" are
brought forward into my consciousness.
One is the Perfect
Idea with which my spirit went bravely into incarnation. The
other is the resultant of only a partially understood Plan
in fact, my life as it was actually lived. It was a shock
to me, and a very salutary experience, to find that these
two plans differed exceedingly. And yet, one learns so much
by facing the results."
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30-20
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"During this experience the whole cycle of your life-term
unfolds before you in a kaleidoscopic series of pictures.
During this crisis one seems to be entirely alone. Yours is
the judgment. You stand at your own bar of judgment. You make
your own decisions. You take your own blame
.You are the accused,
the judge and the jury."
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32-58
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"Persons who commit suicide before the time they are meant
to die find themselves in a state of heavier vibrations and
closer to the earth than those of us who died natural deaths.
They remain in this state of density until the time when they
would have normally died."
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33-84
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"The state of his astral body judges him and decides the
nature of his after-death experiences. One needs no worse
hell than the torment of living in a diseased and suffering
astral body."
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33-91
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"The fact of not having developed certain powers that are
needed here carries its own penalty. It is the doom of what
one is and from that there is no escape."
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33-135
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"In this process of recollection, as an incident comes back
to one's mind it brings with it the actual feelings, not of
oneself alone but of the others who were affected by the event.
All their feelings have now to be experienced in oneself as
though they were one's own."
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