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ora SPURGI

Insights Into the Afterlife:

56 Questions and Answers on What to Expect

Adapted and Supplemented

by

Rev. Jean Augustin Ghomsi

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To my dearest wife and children without whom my life would have

no meaning. I am grateful for their unconditional support.

To my mother and elder brother who died of cancer respectively on

May 17, 1987 and June 21, 1988. My spiritual life is richer than

ever, thanks to their spiritual support.

Acknowledgements

Grateful acknowledgement is hereby made to the following for

permission to use material in this booklet:

Mrs. Nora Spurgin for her booklet to be used as backbone of this

one.

Sun Moon University for excerpts from Lucifer, A Criminal Against

Humanity of Dr. Sang Hun Lee

FFWPU for excerpts from Life in the Spirit World and on Earth of

Dr. Sang Hun Lee

I am also grateful to all those who helped in the reading of the

manuscript and the suggestions they made have been well taken.

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publisher.

© Mafana Publishers, Johannesburg - South Africa, 2006

Mafana Publishers, PO Box 189 Wendywood 2144

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This was first published in French by

© Dove Publishers, Yaounde-Cameroon, 2002

ISBN: 9956-36-008-2

Dove Publishers, B.P. 11824 Yaounde-Cameroon

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Table of Contents
Introduction to the Adapted and Supplemented Version
Introduction to the Original Version
Questions and Answers
1. Does God exist? How do we know?
2. If God truly exist, why are only some people experiencing
Him?3. 3. Is there life after death? How do we know?
4. If life continues after physical death, where is such life
lived?
5. How is human life in relation to the eternity?
6. What is the spirit world like?
7. What comparison can we make between spiritual selves and
physical selves?
8. What is inspiration and what is its role in our life?
9. How is the good spiritual world?
10. Is going to the spirit world automatic?
11. What will we look like in the spiritual world?
12. What will we do in the spiritual world?
13. How does Hell look like?
14. Do we have to be religious?
15. If we are not religious, what happens?
16. Does what we believe and practice in different religious
traditions make a difference in terms of quality of life in the spiritual
world?
17. What is judgment, when and how does it take place?
18. Are people on the spiritual side aware of our passing?

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19. Will we know and be with our relatives and friends who have
passed on before us?
20. Can spiritual growth take place on the other side?
21. What about heaven and hell?
22. What could we do while still living in the physical body to make
a better transition at death?
23. Is there a good or bad death?
24. After entering the spirit world, can we return to loved ones on
earth?
25. Why can't people on earth see or hear the spirit if it is still alive
and trying to make contact?
26. Is there time and space in the spiritual world?
27. Can we still enjoy physical and sensual pleasure in the spirit
world, for example, food, drink, and sex?
28. What is a near-death experience?
29. Are angels different from spirits of people who have lived on
earth?
30. Are there demonic spirits and angels?
31. Can our prayers help a deceased?
32. Will we meet God and other religious figures?
33. Of what significance are repentance and making amends before
we die?
34. What is the difference between forgiven and non-forgiven sins?
35. Are there great and small sins?
36. How are our sins manifested in the spiritual world?
37. What happens to one who commits suicide?
38. Does suffering on earth have spiritual value?

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39. Does the spiritual world evolve or is it static?
40. Is salvation universal?
41. Is man predestined? If yes, to what extend?
42. What is conscience and what is its role in our life?
43. How do spirit persons help people on earth?
44. What tie do we have with our ancestors?
45. What about faults committed against third parties?
46. What about spiritual possessions?
47. What about reincarnation?
48. How do evil persons resurrect?
49. What are some guidelines for disposing of one's estate?
50. What about some ceremonies that are asked of us to appease the
ancestors?
51. Are there marriages in the next life? If I'm married now, will our
family be together?
52. What is the fundamental meaning of love?
53. What about the life of a couple that one of the partners is dead?
54. Who is Lucifer and how did he become Satan?
55. What to do in case of spiritual disease?
56. What has been the fate of some of the historic figures?
Epilogue
Suggested Reading

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Introduction to the Adapted and Supplemented Version
The knowledge of the secrets of the life beyond death has always

fascinated human beings of all times. Unfortunately, contrary to the

physical world whose secrets are revealed every day thanks to the

science, the spiritual world remained for a long time a hermetic and

enigmatic secret for humanity, in spite of efforts of people like

Emanuel Swedenborg and Anthony Borgia.

The ignorance of the spiritual world has often been encouraged by

some religious leaders who took on themselves the responsibility to

discourage all research in this sense or to condemn all spiritual

experiences as diabolic. But, we must know that the belief in the

spiritual world and the preparation to the spiritual life constitute the

foundation and the goal of religion. There are only materialists and

atheists who think otherwise! Fortunately, the charismatic

movements, the appearances of the Holy Virgin Mary and similar

phenomena as well as the work of exorcists have allowed us to be

conscious of the spiritual reality, even though up to now it is not well

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known; especially, because we ignored completely the laws

governing such a world and the activities of the spirits.

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In the 1980's I viewed a documentary entitled Life After Life (La Vie

Après la Vie) that moved me in a special way and illuminated me

more on this problem. In this documentary, one of the witnesses said

that Jesus told him: “There are more people entering in my Father's

Kingdom these days than ever before in history!" Today, thanks to

the more recent experiences of the Dr. Sang Hun Lee 2, we can

comprehend this world better and can know to some details its

present state. This book presents a summary of all these revelations

and allows a better understanding of our future life. Moreover, it

allows us to prepare ourselves better to face this ultimate journey that

all, without exception, we must undertake one day. As the saying

goes, “He who wishes to live long avoids excess.”

Indeed, a good understanding of the spiritual world would allow us

to put an end to all the sins we commit each day here on earth. A
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Documentary of the Tele-Video Production presented by Pastor Jean Lebel,
Switzerland, TVP, 1984, CH-2016 CORTAILLOD.
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Dr. Sang Hun Lee died on 22 March 1997 and since then has made many
revelations about the spiritual world through a medium.

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person, convinced that s/he will have to be accountable after his/her

death, will take time to review his/her relationship with God and

his/her neighbors. It is true that as the French philosopher, Pascal, we

must not do good based on calculations or out of fear of retribution.

But at least, it allows us to reduce evil. Of course, the ideal is to do

good for goodness sake and out of genuine love for God and others.

I personally had many experiences with the spiritual world since

childhood that convinced me of its existence. I have also lost many

close relatives to death and among them my mother and elder brother

who died of cancer one after the other one-year apart. I regret that

only my brother could be prepared for the next world. Since then, I

have had spiritual encounters with them – my mother and brother, in

particular – that led me to believe that they are alive in the life

beyond and more importantly, they are working with me to complete

what they couldn’t on this earth.

While working on this booklet, I took the liberty to adapt it to the

African context, and I made some additions both in the number of

questions as well as in the content of the answers. The original text

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contains 30 questions and answers. This one comprises 56.

Sometimes, some answers are just translated excerpts from Le

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Monde Spirituel et *ous (The Spiritual World and Us) or excerpts
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from The Reality of the Spirit World and Life on Earth and Lucifer,
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a Criminal Against Humanity of Dr Sang Hun Lee. I kept the initial

title and author, nevertheless, since the initial document constitutes

the backbone of this booklet.

Also, unfortunately, this will not be just a normal translation of the

French version of this booklet. For the sake of clarity, I have added

or remove some things in the answers and the order of the last 7

questions and answers have been shuffled. Two new questions have

been added, the first and second.

Finally, I pray that the Holy Spirit may guide the reader to a better

understanding of the reality of the spiritual world and of the necessity

to prepare very well for this eternal journey that we call death. I am,

however, unsatisfied because even after having added new questions

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A pamphlet published by Editions Guérir Le Monde, Paris, 1995
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Sang Hun Lee, The Reality of the Spirit World and Life on Earth, FFWPU, 1998.
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Sang Hun Lee, Lucifer, A Criminal Against Humanity, FFWPU, 1999.

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and answers, I could not cover all the points. It may also happen that

some answers will hurt the beliefs of the reader and his/her personal

convictions. Please, before condemning or judging, take some time

to read the whole book, because I am sure that it is only an

appearance. However, I take full responsibility for all erroneous

interpretations that could come up while pleading God that the Holy

Spirit can guide all those reading this book. If it can help you to be

more devoted to Heaven and to better prepare your eternal life, then I

will be very happy.

Rev. Jean Augustin Ghomsi

PO Box 189 Wendywood, 2144

Johannesburg, South Africa.

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 Introduction to the Original Version
My interest in writing this booklet was inspired by the life and death

of a dear friend. For most of the five years she had battled cancer,

Linna believed that she would conquer the fearful stalker; but in the

end, she accepted that she was going to die. It was the process of her

preparation to die that prompted a desire in me to share with others

the understandings which she gained in anticipating the next life.

Linna and I were friends and colleagues. She was an educator and a

woman of determination. It was a shock to all of her friends when

she was diagnosed with cancer. I remember visiting her in the

hospital where she joked, “We always thought I was the invincible

one, so we have life insurance on my husband!”

Following surgery and a course of chemotherapy, Linna began a new

life. It was a life with greater awareness of its value. She looked at

her relationships with family and friends with new eyes. She

pondered the things she wanted to accomplish and those things that

were of less importance. She sought changes in her life and habits to

bring about optimum health. She began meditating and, in so doing,

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found a place of peace within, as well as a greater spiritual

awareness. She made changes in her diet and found friends who

prayed for her and introduced her to healing music, writings on

positive thinking, healing imagery and internal body cleansing.

Her friends saw her blossom and make gains in spiritual and physical

health. However, underlying everything was a nagging fear that the

cancer would snatch away her life. And so it did. But she had four

and a half years to accomplish things she wanted to do, time to

prepare with her husband and grown children and most of all, time to

think about life after death.

In the final half year, Linna knew that her life on earth was coming to

a close. In those last months her concern was, what should I

accomplish, and how can I best prepare to die? During this time, a

close group of her friends learned much about death and life

hereafter.

My heart aches for the many who die without preparation, without a

sustaining philosophy of life, or death. This is the primary reason that

I asked a few close friends of Linna's to help me in preparing this

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little booklet to share what we have learned through our experience

with her, and throughout our own reading and searching. If there is

life after death, and if our earthly life is preparation for that then we

have come to believe the greatest thing we could do for humankind is

to share this understanding.

While surveys show that most people believe in some form of life

after death, most of us are less certain what form that life will take.

Interest in death as a transition into a higher state of consciousness

moved from the realm of the solely religious when psychiatrist and

author Elisabeth KŸbler-Ross, who writes and speaks extensively on

death and dying, caused physicians, psychiatrists, and scientists to

take a new look at the meaning of death.

Knowledge and understanding of the afterlife can help many of us

overcome fear and pain when making preparations for our own

death, or for that of someone we love. Understanding can help

tremendously with the grieving or separation process. Our lives on

earth are preparation for the eternal life and this is a source of great

hope, expectation and joy.

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We came to an understanding that every person has a place in the

heart of God. Every individual has been created to receive the joy,

the blessing and the delights of heavenly life because of God's love.

Death or passing to the spiritual world is like birth, into a new and

deeper level of existence, and, if we are prepared, the time of passing

can be a celebration of joy, like a birthday!

For the format for this informative booklet, I have chosen 30

commonly asked questions with answers that you will hopefully find

simple and clear. These answers are presented without specific

religious doctrine and dogma and are for the sole purpose of

enhancing life both on earth and beyond. This booklet is for those

who are in the full bloom of life; for there is still time to prepare. For

those who are terminally ill, it might make a difference in the quality

of the final years or months and help the new arrival into the spiritual

world.

I want to express my gratitude to Farley Jones, Lynn Mathers, June

Kiburz, Nancy Barton, and Anne Edwards, a few of Linna's friends,

who helped pull together these ideas and pass them on to you.

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Nora M. Spurgin, M.S.W

. “Life is real! Life is Earnest!

And the grave is not its goal;

Dust thou art, to dust returneth,

Was not spoken of the soul.”

Henry Wadsworth

Longfellow

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 Questions and Answers

1. Does God exist? How do we know?

The question of God’s existence is directly linked to that of life after

death. For, if it was not to be with God on the other side, then what

would be the meaning of life after death? Philosophers and

humankind from all works of life, and from time immemorial have

asked themselves this question. The fact that this question still comes

up is a proof that the answers we have received yet have not been

satisfactory.

Yes, God does exist. How do we know? Well, I will not go into the

purely philosophical and theological discussions of this question as

this booklet is not meant to be too technical but to be understandable

by both lay and learned alike.6

God is the master of the spiritual world as well as the creator of all

things. God is neither limited material nor solid mass. Our reason
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Those interested in more philosophical and argumentative answers can consult A
Handbook of Theological Terms by Van A. Harvey or John Hick’s book, The
Existence of God, Collier Books, both published by Macmillan Publishing
Company, NY, 1964

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cannot understand Him. We cannot see Him with our physical

senses, and we cannot grasp or explain Him. God is a being without a

form or color and can’t be touched; that’s why we can’t see Him. He

simply “IS!” (Ex. 3:14) You cannot describe God no matter how

long you study Him. In terms of greatness, He is the greatest being

you can’t even imagine; while in terms of smallness, He is the

smallest being you can’t imagine. God is the One who guides the

providence and leads people profoundly with His resplendent light.

I heard someone saying that, “If God was visible, the richest person

might buy Him and keep Him for him/herself.” Thus, in order to be

available to everyone, God is invisible! It may seem naïve but it has

some sense.

We believe in the existence of air, radio waves, x-rays, love,

electricity, etc; but we only see their manifestations. When the wind

is blowing, when we listen to the radio, when we see the result, when

we see a kind gesture or when we press on the switch, that’s where

we realize that they exist. Although God cannot be seen, He can be

experienced: the burning bush, the columns of fire and clouds for

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Moses, brilliant light for others. Here is a description of Dr. Lee’s

experience of God after he arrived in the spiritual world: “God calls

me, ‘Sang Hun.’ I hear the voice clearly with my own ears. Then a

brilliant, glittering, radiating and reflecting light appears in front of,

behind and above my head. Amid the light, a streak of light,

unidentified, captures my heart. I, with my ability, cannot find the

right verb to describe my feeling. It is like the peacefulness when a

baby in its mother’s bosom meets the mother’s eyes while listening to

her heartbeat. Even this description cannot fully capture my

experience. Then, as God’s calling voice changes, the brightness of

the beautiful light changes, and I go into an ecstatic state. My whole

body seems to be melting. Then, suddenly, I am standing by myself: I

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cannot see God.”

He continues, “Because the image of God is fire and light, the

elements of love in human mind interact immediately when God’s

light is received. Just as light is turn on when you press a switch,

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Sang Hun Lee, The Reality of the Spirit World and Life on Earth, FFWPU, Seoul,
1998. p.30

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when you see God’s light, love can start operating and turn your
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heart into love itself.”

2. If God truly exist, why are only some people experiencing

Him?
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To answer this question, I would like to take two analogies :

First, the relationship between God and us is similar to that between

a radio station and a radio receiver. The radio station is always

transmitting but for the receiver to get the programs, the receiver

should be in good condition, be turned on, and be tuned at the right

bandwidth and also the right frequency. If the receiver is in good

condition and turn on but without the knowledge of the proper

bandwidth and frequency, some times only and just by chance can

the receiver get something from the radio station. This is like our

relationship with God. God is always available and trying to reach

out to us. But as humans, we are in different conditions in relation to

Him. Because of sin, all human beings are not fully functional

(working but not properly). Here, you have a) those who are always
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Op. cit. p. 30.
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See Parable of the Sower, Matt. 13:3-9

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off (atheists), b) those who are on but who don’t want to know the

bandwidth and frequency (indifferent and those who don’t feel the

need for God - materialists); c) those who don’t know the bandwidth

and frequency but try to look for it from time to time (people who

look for God just in times of trouble); d) those who don’t know but

are making serious effort to know (those seriously seeking for God);

e) those who know but listen only from time to time (those who

know how to find God but are caught up in worldly matters); and

finally f) those who know and try their best to listen to the station

from time to time (those who know where to find God and try to

meet Him from time to time).

As you can see, of course only those between c) and f) will have

some kind of experience with God. The c) people may just by chance

fall on the proper bandwidth and frequency but because of lack of

interest will not remember or write it down. The d) people will one

day find the bandwidth and frequency and move to e) or f).

Second, our relationship with God is similar to that between two

people with phone lines. Originally God wanted to have a “hotline”

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with us, that is, a line that is never busy and He can reach us or we

can reach Him any time. Unfortunately, because of the fall of our

first human ancestors, there are problems. Some us a) have

completely dismantled the line (atheists); b) some have the line, but

didn’t pay their phone bills, so the line is cut; c) many have the line

but they don’t know God’s number and God doesn’t know theirs as

they are changing numbers all the time, always moving; d) some pay

their bills but the line is too old and have never been serviced (too

busy (or always procrastinate) to call a technician to come and fix the

line), so when God calls, because of much noise, they can barely hear

Him or He can barely hear them; e) others service their line regularly

but because of worldly considerations and preoccupations, the line is

always busy when God want to reach them, He can’t; and when they

themselves want to call God, they can’t as they have to receive

incoming calls first; f) few pay their bills, service their lines and

make calls to or receive calls from God but not necessary as they

wish and most don’t even understand the content of these messages

(thus, different interpretations).

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The bottom line here is that most people don’t know how to reach

God, what is His address (bandwidth and frequency or phone

number) and timetable (He became also busy doing the work of

restoration). It is not because you don’t get God on your receiver that

you can conclude that He doesn’t exist. Most people look for God in

wrong places. (The first Soviet astronauts to go into space came back

and said they had the proof that He doesn’t exist because they look

all over the sky and couldn’t find Him!) Even those who reach God

ask for wrong things and they are surprised when they don’t get what

they want.

God is found where there is true love, where people live for the sake

of others, where there is suffering and pain. When you make effort to

love with true love, to sacrifice yourself for others, when you take

care of those in pain, you will find God. If you want to attract God’s

attention, don’t ask for things – if not, for a stronger faith, for a

bigger heart to love others and for wisdom to discern good from bad

or things for others - but work for God’s kingdom and His

righteousness.

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3. Is there life after death? How do we know?

From Plato and the early Greeks, through Jesus and Paul, through

most African and Oriental cultures, to spiritualists of the twentieth

century, a belief in some kind of survival of bodily death has been

unequivocally affirmed. Jesus' assertion that in his Father's house

there are many rooms, would seem to be justified by the fact that this

common belief is held by such divergent peoples.

In fact, the belief in life after death is the very foundation of religion.

Only materialists believe that all ends here on earth!

While many traditional believers tend to shy away from the topic,

testimony to the existence of a spirit world actually permeates the

Bible. Prophets such as Ezekiel and Isaiah report powerful spiritual

visions, as does the writer of the book of Revelation. In the Gospels,

angels speak (Luke 1:28) and on the Mount of Transfiguration, Jesus

talks with the long-dead Moses and Elijah (Mt 17:1-3). Christian

mystics and saints throughout history also spoke of spiritual

experiences.

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The proposition that life continues beyond physical death goes a long

way toward explaining well-recognized and otherwise unexplainable

phenomena, for example, near-death experiences, visions of

deceased persons and the experience of authentic communication

from the other side.

To understand what happens to us at death, we first need to

understand of what we are made. Most of us tend to identify closely

with our physical bodies, but this is only part of the picture. We are

not only physical matter, but also spiritual essence. It is accurate to

say that we are essentially spiritual beings who possess physical

bodies. When we die, we in effect take off our physical bodies as one

might take off an overcoat. The essential person remains.

As a person acts according to plans elaborated to the level of his/her

mind, the events that take place in the physical world are by in large

the results of a process that began in the spiritual world. As the

saying goes, “where there is a will, there is a way.” If a program is

not elaborated in the spiritual world, it cannot be achieved on the

earth.

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It is true that materialists have made us to believe that the mind, as

autonomous entity, doesn't exist and that all the mental activities

amounts to chemical mechanisms in the brain. Numerous scientific

experiences prove, however, that the memory for example is not

contained “in the brain cells.” A growing number of biologists rather

consider the brain like a “receptor”, a point of privileged contact

between the immaterial mind and the material body.

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The investigations of Doctor Raymond Moody on the “near-death

experiences” confirmed in a spectacular manner that the mind

transcends the body: some people, declared in clinical death state,

experience an intense psychic life of which they return with

vivacious memories. They generally mentioned to have come out of

their body and to have observed it like a separated thing.

The Swedish Friedrich Jürgenson, in 1959, recorded on a simple tape

recorder voices presenting themselves as emanating from the life

beyond. Since, many researchers have made similar experiences with

audio or video devices. They could bring in evidence the

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Raymond Moody, Life After Life, Jai Lu, 1975.

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phenomenon of “trans-communication.” Electronics that functions

with very weak currents, seem to be easily influenced by the

discarnate entities wanting to communicate with us.

Pope Pie XII was himself interested in this method of

communication between the living and the dead that he considered to

be “a scientific means very different from spiritualism, neutral and

impossible to be influenced by the human mind…” Father François

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Brune made known the progress of this research in his work

entitled, Dead People Speak to Us.

In Africa, we believe that:

“The dead are never gone

They are in the shadow that lightens

And in the shadow that darkens,

The dead are not under the earth

They are in the tree that quivers,

They are in the wood that moans,

They are in the water that flows,

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François Brune, Dead People Speak to Us, Le Felin, 1988.

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They are in the water that sleeps,

They are in the slot, they are in the crowd

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The dead are not dead…”

Indeed, the best proof of the survival of the soul remains the innate

conscience that we have of our own eternity. The philosopher

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Espinoza said, “We feel and we experience that we are eternal.”

4. If life continues after physical death, where is such life lived?

Our bodies exist, of course, in the physical world, which provides an

environment for our activity and growth on earth and offers us

nourishment, stimulation and joy. Likewise, there is a spiritual

dimension of the universe the invisible spirit world - which serves as

the environment for our spirits. Our spirit is the internal counterpart

to our physical body, and the spirit world is the invisible counterpart

to the physical world. This world is located not up in heaven, but in a

different dimension, inter-penetrating the physical world and the

universe. While on earth we exist in both worlds at once, in effect

12
Birago Diop, The Tales of Amadou Koumba, Dakar, Presence Africaine, 1961,
pp. 173-175.
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Espinoza, Ethics V, scolie de la prop. 23.

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connecting the two. For this reason, people on occasion can have

visions and communicate with the dead.

While most people are prepared to admit belief in some kind of life

after death, fewer accept the proposition that during our physical

lifetimes we exist in two realms at once, a material one and a

spiritual one. There is an invisible spiritual world surrounding this

physical one, inhabited by those who have passed on. Because the

two realms inter-penetrate each other, the spirit of a person near

death can float out of the body.

To begin to understand how we could simultaneously live in two

realms and, for the most part, be unaware of it, we must remember

that there are many things in the natural world that exist beyond the

range of our five physical senses. For example, we cannot see

infrared light or x-rays, or hear sounds above or below certain

frequencies. Nevertheless, x-rays and high and low frequency sound

vibrations do exist. In the same way, even though we cannot perceive

a spiritual world through our physical senses, it exists all around us.

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The discoveries of modern science lend credence to this prospect.

Whereas in prior times scientists thought of the material world as

constructed of solid, though minute, blocks of matter, they now

believe this is not the case. Rather, what we think of as the material

world seems to consist of invisible patterns of energy. The

implications of this theory with regard to the existence of a spiritual

dimension are clear. Indeed, it is probably such a discovery as this

that gave rise to Albert Einstein's celebrated remark that his work

was spiritual, involving the discovery of where matter ends and spirit

begins.

Just as we perceive the physical world with our physical senses

(sight, hearing, taste, touch and smell), so too the spirit world can be

perceived by a set of spiritual senses which are not limited by the

physical laws of nature. For instance, you can be somewhere alone

(in the forest, at home or in the park, etc.) and suddenly you feel like

someone is beside you or you may hear someone calling your name.

This is not physical but spiritual. We also have spiritual sight,

hearing, taste, touch and smell. Some experience it from time to time

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in their lives, others in the coma, and still others only after death.

Because most of us are not attuned to our spiritual senses, we

become aware of the spirit world only when we pass into it at the end

of our physical lives.

5. How is the human life in relation to eternity?

To understand the human life in the context of the eternity, it is

necessary to consider it from the standpoint of the three stages of life

we go through: the stage of life in the womb, the stage of life on

earth and the stage of life in the spiritual world.

In the womb, the fetus lives in a warm, dark and liquid world, with a

little space to move. But he is assured to receive food thanks to the

placenta that links him to his mother. At the time of the birth, the

fetus undergoes a real shock while leaving the snug, dark and liquid

environment of the womb for that of lights and sounds of the

delivery room. The midwife or doctor cuts the umbilical cord and the

placenta, that assured him food allowing him to live, is evacuated

and buried. In the eyes of the fetus birth seems to be a “death”,

whereas it is actually the means to pass to the next stage of life. The

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purpose of life in the womb is to prepare for the life in the physical

world. Thus, the way the mother live through her pregnancy is very

significant: what are her thoughts and her feelings? What spiritual

environment prevails? What type of music does she listen to? Where

does she go? And so on... All these factors influence the future child

in good or bad way. That's why some children are born handicapped

and not fit to cope with life on earth. For example, a child who is

born with a heart or lung disease will finally die before the age of ten

or twenty.

On earth, we live in the world of air, light and the sound. In this

world, our liberty of movement is a lot bigger. The physical body

offers the mind shelter and security. It pulls its substance of the earth,

and its acts feed the growth of the mind. At the time of death, a

person is seized by the fear and the anxiety. The soul is about to

leave the world of air, light and the sound, that is constituted of

coarse matters, for an unknown domain whose atmosphere is that of

love. The body, its familiar home, is abandoned. The umbilical cord

(the “silver thread” of Ecclesiastic 12:6) that joins the spiritual body

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to the physical body is cut off by angels. This thing that we call death

is actually “the birth of our eternity” (Sénèque), the passage to a new

stage of life. The newly born mind meets in a domain of light and

love; his liberty of movement is there unlimited. He would not like to

go back anymore to the limitations of the terrestrial life in a body as

a child would not like to return in the maternal womb. Benjamin

Franklin said one day:

“This life is like an embryonic state; a preparation to life. A man is

not so much completely born that he didn't die. Why then to afflict us

when a new child is born among the immortals - when a new

member comes to be added to their blissful society? We are all of the

minds. That some bodies are lent us - so much that they can give us

the pleasure, and that they help us to acquire some knowledge, or to

make the good to all other creatures - is in a way an act of kindliness

on behalf of God. When the body becomes incapable to make us

reach these goals, that it makes us suffer instead of giving us the

pleasure, and that to the place to help us, it becomes a burden, when

it doesn't fulfill any of the functions for which it has been given, it is

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also an act of goodness and kindliness that is provided to us a means
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to get rid of it. This means is death.”

While we are on earth, our mind eats nourishing elements coming at

a time from the physical world and the spiritual world. We receive

the elements of life that are love, truth and grace of God from the

spiritual world, and vitality elements through the acts and life of our

body in the physical world. These two types of nourishing elements

are necessary for the growth of our mind. Some of those who are

interested in spiritual matters commit the mistake of thinking that our

spiritual growth only requires that one gets in harmony with the

spiritual world. If they forget to love and serve others, whose

preoccupations are more superficial, however, they will disregard the

most important aspect of the spiritual growth. The Great

Commandment, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your

heart, all your soul and all your thought.” (Mat. 22:37), when it is

put into practice, links us to the spiritual world that gives as food, life

elements. “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” (Mat. 22:39)

14
The *ational Spiritualist 819 (September 1993), Phoenix, National Spiritualist
Association of Churches, p.15.

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describes the way to receive good vitality elements while

accomplishing acts of goodness and love in the physical world. The

purpose of our life on earth is to prepare for life in the spiritual

world, that is, cultivate our ability to love God and love others and

bring it to maturity.

In the womb, we come from love and God: God's love and the love

of our parents meet at the time of conception to produce a new life.

On earth, we embody the love and we embody God: we grow in the

school that is the family, to reach the maturity of love, to achieve our

divine nature. In the spiritual world, we come back to love and God:

the spiritual world is governed by love, and God is its center. The

Psalmist said: “I raise the eyes toward the mountains: from where

will the help come to me?” (Ps. 121:1). We must look toward the

eternal spiritual world to find God and the goal of our life. If people

knew indeed the nature of the spiritual world, they would live their

terrestrial life while thinking above all about their eternal destiny. If

people understood that any action made on earth is recorded in the

mind, and that in the spiritual world, they will be accountable in the

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least details, who would dare commit a crime? If people understood

that the spiritual world is the world of the mental and spiritual reality,

who would give him/herself the pain to make so many efforts just to

acquire and to accumulate material things?

6. What is the spirit world like?

Sensitive people who have had glimpses into the world beyond say it

is a world much like our own, but having no time nor space as we

think of these dimensions; it exists in a higher dimension of energy

and, in its higher realms, is a world of inexpressible beauty. It is a

world where it is possible to be fully alive, where, for example, the

whole body perceives. You see in all 360 degrees. It is a world of

endless possibilities for creativity and full realization of self; and it is

a world where the love of God is like the air we breathe. As air is the

atmosphere on earth, God's love is the atmosphere in the spirit world.

One's spiritual body can travel with thought waves. Therefore, if one

thinks of a person and place, he can immediately be transported

there. Communication is also by thought. In addition, one is free

from the restrictions of the physical body; eating, for example, is

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possible, but not necessary to maintain the physical body. In the

spiritual world, one realizes that life on earth has, like life in the

womb, been preparation for a fuller, freer and richer eternal

existence.

“The spiritual world is a little like a Spanish inn: each one finds

there what he has brought in. Our actions in this world determine

our eternal life. During our life on the earth, while essentially

developing our “heart”, that means our capacity to receive and to

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share the love of God and the others.”

In many ways, the physical world is the world of appearance and

pretense, of role-play and masks. It is very difficult to read on the

face of people their real inner thoughts. Some people are masters in

the art to make themselves appear to be what they are not really.

Besides, we have one thousand ways to lie to ourselves, to prevent

ourselves from facing our problems or our responsibilities by all

sorts of distractions.

15
Le Monde Spirituel et *ous, Editions Guérir le Monde, Paris, 1995. Translated
by the author of this booklet.

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“The spiritual world, on the other hand, is the world of the being in

its perfect transparency. Anything of our inner nature cannot be

hidden, both to ourselves as well as to others. The outer appearance

of our spiritual body reflects directly the state of our inner being.

Those who brought their hearts to full bloom by the practice of true

love radiate of a resplendent beauty, while to the other extreme,

those who only lived for the pleasures of the flesh take some animal's
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shapes.”

7. What comparison can we make between spiritual people and

physical people?

Let's consider people on earth. They see with their physical eyes,

touch and act physically. Since people on earth have bodies, there are

moments where they cannot make what they want to their suitability.

They live limited physically to a place and in a determined space.

For example, the human beings live through a period of 40, 60 or

even 100 years. Besides, on earth, in spite of my desire for an object,

I am not able to automatically get it. People on earth could make

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Op. cit., p.6

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some things artificially, but they are not able to perfectly achieve

them. The person on earth has a body and cannot occupy an eternal

place. If s/he doesn't move, s/he cannot eat. In the same way, because

we act in the finite space, when someone misses us in thoughts, all

stops there. Furthermore, when we have physical pain, we don't have

the certainty of the solution. For example, when people of faith fall

ill, they are going to resort first to prayer or to a similar solution, but

the unbelievers go directly to the hospital.

The spiritual people are different. Because the physical body doesn't

limit them, they have an infinite sphere in which they can act. Let's

take an example. Whichever it is, the sight, the touch, the action,

because it immediately appears with our thought, there is no time.

Spiritual people don't have physical bodies; therefore they can have

an eternal place. Spiritual people can follow an active life in the

eternal world. Because those people can move something with the

thought as well as with the hand, the time is condensed and it doesn't

require the help of someone else to solve a problem. At the same

time a spiritual person thinks, another spiritual person can receive

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this thought and it doesn't require some words (a speech). When a

spiritual person develops her logic with an exact precision and

definitive way, she can transmit all exact details, and they will appear

rightly before the face of the other person. Therefore you can express

your situation very quickly because your partner immediately

recognizes the expression of your feeling.

Spiritual people can know the process of God's creation completely

from the beginning, as well as the whole concept of what we call a

person, from where they can never cause pain to God (it constitutes

one of the points of distinction between heaven and hell). Spiritual

beings, if they work hard in their sphere, are going to evolve as the

masters in their field and will receive their reward. Thus, there is no

cupidity; they always keep a calm countenance (this is another point

of divergence with hell). In other words, to solve a problem of food

or clothing, there is no harassment or quarrel, and the facial

expressions stay humble and good.

If it is necessary to summarize the difference between physical

people and the spiritual beings, we will say that the physical beings

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live and act within the limit of time and space. They are much

occupied to solve difficult problems and suffer because of the

nutritional and sartorial needs, whereas the spiritual beings can move

freely in an infinite space. Because the worries of nutrition and

clothing have been removed, they are infinitely brilliant and humble.

In conclusion: to carry good fruits in your physical life so that, when

you will have the privilege to arrive in heaven, you can appreciate

the veracity of these facts.

Now let's examine the points they have in common. Each of the two

lives, the spiritual world and the physical world, are only half of the

reality. Therefore, each can accomplish only half. Also, an

experienced and trained spiritual person (a spirit) can move physical

things and commit physical acts. For example, hit a descendant for a

reason or another, make a photo fall down or break a dish at wish.

Then, how to solve with success the problem of mind and body?

Before the separation of the mind from the body by physical death,

they must finish their lives on earth. Then they can bear complete

fruits. However, when a spiritual person arrives in the spiritual world

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with his/her immature mind, there are some problems. Thus, to solve

these problems, the relation between the forebears and the

descendants become complicated.

Furthermore, we must keep in mind the importance of life lived on

earth. In order to live for eternity in the beautiful house that God

prepared for us, we must not pursue a “mean life” as our goal. Our

life on earth must be such that it can bear the complete fruit of the

mind and the body, and therefore, greet the harvest season with joy.

8. What is inspiration and what is its role in our life?

Inspiration is an activity that translates the spiritual cooperation

between a spiritual person and a person living on earth. It is based on

the same spiritual inclinations or aspirations. Thus, a spirit cannot

cooperate with someone on earth unless s/he has the same tastes or

works in the same field that the spirit was working on while on earth.

It is why a physicist will go toward another physicist, a musician

toward another musician, a singer of rock toward another singer of

rock, a Moslem toward another Moslem, a Catholic toward a

Catholic, etc., in order to continue what s/he began on earth.

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Behind the creative work of all great inventors, scientists and artists,

there is the spiritual inspiration. How come that so many inventions

and scientific discoveries are nearly done simultaneously by several

researchers in different parts of the world, whereas they work

separately one from the other?

Many stories exist of scientists who received the key of new

discoveries in dreams or in lightning of non-terrestrial intuitions.

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One evening, Kekule fell asleep on his chair, and in dream, he saw

snakes biting the tail of one another and forming a whirled hoop. He

woke up and immediately realized that the six atoms of carbon of the

benzene are joined together in order to form a circle. With this

discovery, all facts of the organic chemistry that were known to his

time got into place.

Artists, poets and musicians recognized since time immemorial that

the Muse was the source of their creative genius. Words or music

arrive to them merely, as if they came from a superior source. Take

for example this description that Mozart made himself:

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Friedrich August Kekule is the German chemist who discovered the structure of
the benzene.

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“When I feel well and that I am in a good mood, or when I go for a

walk by barouche or on foot after a good meal, or the night when I

cannot sleep, the thoughts present themselves in crowd in my mind,

with the whole desirable easiness. From where and how they come?

I don't know and it doesn't concern me. Those that please me, I keep
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them in my head and I hum them…”

The fact is that the spiritual guidance must be formulated in a

manner, with senses hidden behind symbolic and ambiguous

language. People must accomplish their portion of responsibility to

understand the inspiration given by God and the spiritual world. We

are not supposed to be directed by the angels - all spiritual guidance

being angelic by nature - but to have dominion over the angels as

responsible agents, through our own wisdom.

We are constantly in contact with all sorts of spiritual entities and,

generally, in an unconscious manner. The quality of the spiritual

world that influences us depends extensively on our life style and our

18
J. Hadamard, The Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field, Princeton,
1995, p.16; quoted in Roger Penrose, The Emperor’s *ew Mind, Oxford, 1989,
p.423.

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“spiritual foods” (books, art, radio and TV programs, etc.). Our

thoughts, our feelings and our actions attract some spirits who, on

their turn, encourage our good or bad leanings.

9. What is the “good” spiritual world?

The spiritual world can, in general, be divided in two: the “good” and

the “bad.” The “good” is called abusively heaven and the bad

constitutes hell. Between the two, there is what is called the

transitional spiritual world, that is, the place where the souls first

land just after death.

The "good" spiritual world includes the intermediate sphere, paradise

and God's Kingdom (the true Heaven).

The Intermediate Sphere is occupied by people of conscience,

charitable people, patriots, educators, people of virtue, truth seekers,

etc., in brief, people who made some efforts to behave well while

they were on earth. Whether they believed or not in a religion, they

tried to lead a life of goodness according to their conscience. Their

goodness was sincere and it didn't have as a goal to get some favors

for themselves. Their interior goodness and their level of heart are

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comparable to those of the good people of the Age of the Old

Testament, that is, the age of justification by acts. The spiritual

people who lived in the age of the Old Testament live in higher

levels, where they are joined then by innumerable others, coming

from all cultures and all religions.

This Intermediate Sphere includes innumerable levels that can be

grouped in three big levels of formation, growth and completion. The

lowest levels (formation) are constituted of the souls that believed in

no religion, that were not interested in God but that lived while

relatively serving their neighbor. On the other hand, the high spheres

(growth) of this intermediate level are constituted of people who

believed in God and had practiced a religion of their choice and had

sacrificed themselves for the sake of others.

The Paradise is also constituted of three levels. Those that led a life

of goodness whereas they were on earth live in the lower level of the

Paradise. One finds there many good Christians, as well as many

non-Christians of a comparable goodness, sincerity and compassion.

There you find the good people of the age of the New Testament, the

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age of the justification by faith, as well as innumerable people who

reached a similar spiritual level.

People of a more advanced spirituality and love live in the middle

level of the Paradise. They lived for the sake of humanity and they

practiced the sacrificial love, even going as far as forgiving their

enemies. Buddha, Confucius, Mahomet, and all founders of religions,

with the exception of Jesus Christ, live in this sphere. Each taught in

his own way what the divine Source of love is and demonstrated it

through his person. The saints who accomplished their mission and

imitated their example live also in this domain. Light springs from

their white and pure dress and around their head shines a golden

halo.

Only Jesus lives in the superior level of the Paradise, he governs the

whole spiritual world with God's love. The beauty of this domain is

incomparable; it is as the love itself. As unique Son of God, Jesus is

in a category of his own, although he taught on earth a type of

brotherly love no different from the one of the founders of the other

religions.

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God's Kingdom is the ultimate level where only the pure families of

goodness are supposed to live there with God. While leaving the

earth 2000 years ago, Jesus left the keys of the Kingdom on earth

(Matt.16:19), because, it must begin on earth as the hell began on

earth with Adam and Eve. Although more and more people fulfill the

conditions to enter into God's Kingdom, actually, this region is

empty. No one lives in its glaring, beaming palace, surrounded with

twelve citadels with doors of pearls.

10. Is going to the spirit world automatic?

Yes. It is not a matter of choice or qualification. Every person is

created as a being whose spirit is eternal. Life in the spirit world is

simply the next step after life on earth, much as life on earth is the

natural step after life in the womb.

Physical birth takes place when a baby, having spent nine months in

a small, dark, warm place, suddenly pushes through the birth canal

into a bright, expansive new world. There is a similar sequence of

events in our birth into the next life. Those who have had NDEs

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describe a dark tunnel leading toward a bright light where loved ones

await their arrival.

It should be noted, however, that if one is educated to believe that

there is no life after death, he/she may fail to recognize the natural

process which automatically takes place. There are those who

describe this ignorance as an incredible injustice, for the passage to

the next world is confused and the spirit may wander indefinitely

without the body, stuck between two worlds, feeling part of neither.

This condition may persist until a spiritual guide is sent to rescue and

re-educate the lost soul.

11. What will we look like in the spiritual world?

As already stated, each person has a physical body and a spirit body,

even while on earth. The physical body which one leaves behind is a

reflection of his spirit and is similar in appearance. The spiritual

body has the same identity, the same vibration; it simply lives in a

different dimension. The higher one's development, or vibration, the

brighter and more finely attuned will be his spirit.

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Fundamentally, an individual maintains distinguishing

characteristics. However, what determines what one looks like in the

spirit world is the person's quality of heart and life. One's inner

quality is perceived as light. One's features are visible but the light

that comes from her very essence is the identifying feature. For

example, because they lived totally for other people, Jesus and other

religious leaders emanate brilliant light.

A very homely person who has served sacrificially will emanate such

light and be very attractive to others in the spirit world. If at the time

of death one's physical body was impaired, his spiritual body will be

free of pain and impairment. However, because the spirit world is the

world of mind, he may still think of himself as being in pain or

having impairment. If so, as long as he carries it in his mind, such

pain and impairment will be present.

In the same way, if we had any physical handicap, in the spiritual

world, our mind doesn't present this handicap. However, to make

itself identify easily by his relatives, the mind can take the shape that

it had on earth. It often happens in dreams or visions.

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12. What will we do in the spiritual world?

It depends on where we are in the spirit world. The higher realms of

spirit world is truly heaven; a world of enjoyment and recreation.

People do things they enjoy, and keep company with people they

enjoy. It is a world of joyful activity. The skills, interests, and

abilities developed on earth may be reflected in the roles chosen in

eternity. Each of us will contribute uniquely toward the goodness and

beauty in our realm. Further, it is said that the spirit world is vast and

of transcendent beauty. Those dwelling in the higher realms are able

to travel to its vast reaches.

The quality of life in the spirit world is directly affected by one's

heart and his activities on earth. Since love is supreme, opportunities

for the practice of love will continue. The means for spiritual growth

is through the dynamic of love, which is to serve. Relationships are

thus very important.

13. How does Hell look like?

Hell is populated of people who led mainly egocentric lives while

they were on earth. They looked there only for their own interest, and

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they told lies, they deceived people, they committed acts of injustice,

thefts, murders and rapes. Even though externally they led

respectable lives, their hearts suppurated of jealousy, hate, greed,

concupiscence, anger and complaints.

The first level (formation), which is immediately below the spiritual

world of transition, is a dark and fetid place. One finds people who

only searched for their own interest there.

The second level of hell (growth), below the first level, is darker and

more lugubrious. Those that are detained in this place have their legs

driven in the ground, as the roots of a tree. These unfortunate persons

are destined to live immobilized during hundreds of thousands of

years. A big number among them is made of those who committed

suicide on earth. Although in our world, the suicide cannot be

considered like a crime, in the spiritual world, this is one of the

serious ones. In this sphere, one also counts those who committed

cruel murders.

The third level of hell (completion) has an appearance again more

lugubrious and miserable. Imagine a sticky and dirty coast of a place

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where there was a deposit of oil waste, and the stink of the

atmosphere filled of a thick black smoke. The spirits are submersed

in a black and sticky marsh, of which they only emerge the time to

take a deep breath before penetrating again. They endure this

existence during thousands of years. Some poor ones are found

standing up, stiff as posts of stone, while sometimes breathing deep

sighs. Among the convicts of this hell, there are some tyrants and

those who slaughtered thousands of people.

14. Must one be religious?

As indicated above, everyone, religious or not, believing in God or

not, transitions to the spiritual world as part of the natural process of

life. Just as one does not need to be religious to live in the physical

world, one does not need to profess a particular faith to live in the

spirit world.

Nevertheless, it is also true that the great world religions have been

the carriers of universal spiritual truth, have been the source of the

spiritual education of millions, perhaps billions, of people and have

been the central force in the spiritual development of the human race.

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Properly understood and fully lived, the teachings underlying the

great religious traditions inevitably promote the spiritual growth of

their followers and thus are enormously valuable in preparing such

individuals for the richest possible lives in the spirit world.

Thus, while one does not have to be religious to dwell in the spirit

world, one inevitably will benefit from a thorough understanding and

practice of a particular tradition. This said, however, it needs to be

recognized that not all teachings described as religious are beneficial.

A religion that is judgmental, prejudicial, critical, and narrow-

minded, encourages violence or vengeance may impede the spirit's

natural growth.

Also, our religious adherence doesn't have any effect on our destiny

after death if we don't practice the ethical precepts of our religion. It

is love, not religion, which creates spiritual growth. Where religion

teaches love, there is growth. Where religion impedes love, there is

stagnation, or even regression.

15. What if we are not religious?

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As explained above, everyone transitions to the spirit world after the

death of the physical body. The level of spiritual maturity determines

one’s state there. If not mature, one may find that an understanding

of the knowledge available through the various religious traditions

may help him to begin the process. This knowledge is best acquired

through an experienced mediator who in effect serves as a type of

spiritual parent or guide for one just beginning his journey.

Further, while the ideal place to grow spiritually is on earth, indeed

this is the reason for life on earth; growth in the spirit world remains

a possibility. There, however, in the absence of a physical body,

growth is more difficult. The opportunity for the full range of love

(child's love, brotherly/sisterly love, conjugal love, and parental love)

is ideally available while one is on earth. Love, which has been

misused or misdirected, is also best corrected in the physical life, for

here is where we have all the physical and spiritual senses with

which to act and communicate.

With regard to the religious and the nonreligious people, God's grace

first comes to the believers, and it is only thereafter that it comes to

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the nonreligious. Even in the spiritual world, when a favor is granted,

the apprehensions rise up. God gives His blessing to humanity

through the Holy Spirit. While loving humanity the spirit world also

receives some benefits. The time will come where, freely, you will

go to a place that you wanted, that reflects the spiritual merit that you

accomplished while you had your physical body. At that time, you

are going to move based on God's order.

16. Does what we believe and practice in different religious

traditions make a difference in terms of quality of life in the

spiritual world?

It is said that the Golden Rule is the governing principle in the spirit

world: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” People

who truly practice the religion of love will find themselves in a

universal sphere where everyone understands that true religion is to

love others as ourselves or more than ourselves.

The most difficult thing for a person who has been deeply steeped in

a particular religious tradition is to realize that the form alone is not

what elevates a person but it is the heart. Still, those who cling to an

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external form of religion will be most comfortable with others who

practice the same rituals, whatever they may be. In this sense,

congregations may continue centered around the particular religious

traditions they practiced while on earth.

The difference between a person of faith and a person without faith is

enormous. It creates a considerable class structure with different

levels. While leading a life of faith, a sincere person will be able to

come closer to God's favor. However, even though you have the

faith, if you lack righteousness, your faith doesn't have a value. Such

a person is going to stay in a position similar to that of a person who

lived ignoring God, to a place where God doesn't have anything to do

with him/her.

Our spiritual wealth comes solely from what we make sincerely and

in a disinterested way. Our religious adherence doesn't have any

effect on our destiny after death if we don't practice its ethical

precepts.

17. What is judgment, when and how does it take place?

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Upon one's entering the spirit world and during the first three days,

we face a life review or what is called the “mirror of judgment.” In

this review, a panorama-like view of one's whole life will appear in

which the good and the bad, the right and wrong are presented and

are self-judged. That is, all the events of the terrestrial life of the

newcomer replay themselves like a movie before his/her eyes as well

as for the spirits who came to welcome him/her. Typically, there is a

good feeling for all the good, and a deep remorse for the wrongs.

This is the judgment; it is self-imposed. Such judgment, however, is

not the end. Out of remorsefulness can come the beginning of

repentance, which enables the spirit to be liberated from ignorance

and to begin to grow spiritually.

All those attending can also see the good hidden actions and the

secret sins of the person. In the same way, you feel the effect of your

acts on the other, this means, how much you wounded or loved them.

The goal of this stage is not that the newcomer receives a reward or

undergoes a punishment; it is to determine his/her spiritual level.

Those that welcomed him/her and that attended the ceremony of the

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“mirror” will offer their friendship to the newcomer and will drive

him/her in the place of stay that invites him/her - Kingdom, the

Paradise, the intermediate sphere, or hell - according to the law of

affinity that binds those that belongs to the same level. No constraint

is exercised. Once the soul has created a tie with a guide of his/her

own level, he/she follows him of his/her full will until the place of

stay that invites him/her.

You become a complete spiritual person at the end of 40 days after

your death. During these 40 days you go and come back between the

spiritual world and the physical world, and your place of residence is

prepared. During this time God doesn't intervene. Although your

ancestors are going to cooperate with you, they cannot help you one

hundred percent. You must work yourself to establish your residence.

No one judges you. The place of judgment of each is different. After,

you go to your home, if you settle where you want according to

geography and the topography, no one will force anything on you.

Your “guardian angel” (spiritual guide) is going to appear and will

direct you naturally.

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However, some souls remain there and wander around the earth; it is

from here that they come to possess the people who live on earth or

that they appear as ghosts. It occurs because they don't realize that

they are dead. When then the terrestrial objects of their affection die

on their turn, then these souls come back to the reason and get set on

leaving the earth.

The atmosphere of conduct or of judgment is different and varies

with the level of the spiritual world. You will be able to receive some

benefits to have spent part of your life as president of a country or

responsible of a group of people, although there were established

conditions that allowed you to make a big contribution to the nation

or to the community. There is no mercy for not having kept a

position of goodness; if you do not keep your existence of value, then

you will receive a deserved punishment for your mistake, not more.

That is how the spiritual world is. Whether you were a president or a

person of the other tip of the social specter, the class distinction does

not have any value in relation to your spiritual foundation.

18. Are people on the spiritual side aware of our passing?

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Yes. Whenever someone passes from the earth, no matter who,

people in the spirit world know that the person is arriving. Those on

the other side know who, when and where, because it is the

responsibility of those in the spirit world to receive the newcomer. In

most cases, relatives are notified so that they can welcome the one

who is passing. Because the major motive of those in the higher

realms in the spirit world is love, there is great desire to help the

newcomer leave the physical world in the best possible way.

19. Will we know and be with our relatives and friends who have

passed on before us?

Just as on earth we seek out relationships that are comfortable, the

same is true in the spiritual world. We are likely to seek out our

relatives, loved ones and ancestors with whom we have a bond.

However, if there is a vast difference in spiritual development, a

person of lesser development and thus having a lower vibration, will

be unable to enter the higher realm to which those of greater

development have advanced. In this case, the more highly developed

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loved one may choose to visit and help the person in need of spiritual

development.

20. Can spiritual growth take place on the other side?

Yes, it appears to be a law of the universe that growth is always

possible. According to many accounts, the spiritual world has

teachers and guides (those who have died, sometimes centuries

before, who have the mission to guide newcomers who want to learn

and grow in the spirit world). For children, teachers are provided to

give them basic knowledge, and people in the position of parents

provide them with essential love.

Those who are lacking in emotional growth, or who have lived

unloving, resentful, vengeful, or selfish lives will be given the

opportunity to serve and help others in order that they may advance

to higher realms. They may even come back to earth as spiritual

helpers, like guardian angels, to influence people to avoid misdeeds

and harmful lifestyles, and to overcome unloving attitudes. Those

who have passed on often come back to their descendants to help and

protect them. In so doing, spiritual growth takes place for both.

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Desire for such spiritual growth arises from a desire to be close to

God. The spiritual world is a world where an ever-increasing unity

with the love of God is the goal of one's growth.

However, because one does not have a physical body anymore,

growth is not possible at will. It might take thousands of years.

21. What about heaven and hell?

On earth we are all aware of different social classes of people. Some

seem to have a very enviable lifestyle while others are miserable.

The same may be said about life in the spirit world. Externally, some

people there live in more attractive and comfortable environments,

others in less appealing conditions. At the extremes there are

beautiful and uplifting settings that are truly heavenly and, on the

other hand, there are very unattractive, even repugnant, environments

that are without a doubt hellish.

The difference between life in the physical world and life in the

spiritual world is that the environment in the spiritual world

corresponds to one's internal nature rather than to that which can be

created through external resources, as is possible in the physical

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world. If, during our lifetime on earth, we matured in a spiritually

rich and beautiful way, we will come to dwell in an environment that

corresponds to these qualities. Indeed, those who have experience

such environments say they possess a beauty that is beyond anything

seen on earth.

In the spirit world, God's truth is represented by light and His love by

warmth. Those individuals in the spirit world who live in harmony

with God thus live in light and warmth. Conversely, if one has been

stunted in his spiritual growth through an undeveloped or misdirected

lifestyle, has led a purely self- centered life or has hurt other people,

his spiritual environment will reflect something of these realities. A

self-centered life on earth places one in an area of the spiritual world

with like- minded people who have yet to learn the value of

unselfishness for the advancement of the soul. Environments distant

from God are said to be dark, cold and inhospitable. Indeed, they

reflect the spirits of those dwelling therein.

In between these extremes are many levels representing different

stages of spiritual growth. The central factor determining our level is

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the degree to which we have lived for the sake of others, and the

extent to which we have been able to influence others likewise to

follow paths of service and love. In this respect, the actions of loving,

serving and teaching others carry the highest spiritual value.

In conclusion, in heaven, there are neither worries nor anxiety. You

live there like a crowd of people of love in perfect agreement. Hell is

a place where you turn in circle in the most elevated limits of

discomfort, anxiety, worries and conflicts, because you live in a

world where you are not able to know anything about love. In

summary, hell is a place where one is cut off from love, and heaven

is the perfect and holy unity of love. In other words, heaven is the

place where there is nothing that does not contain love, while hell is

a place where there is no grain of love, even though, it is possible

that, in the future, the fruit of love buds and bring the liberation of

hell.

22. What could we do while still living in the physical body to

make a better transition at death?

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We should educate ourselves as much as possible about the spirit

world. Even gaining the smallest impression that there is life after

death will bring enlightenment and understanding. The more

understanding one has to illuminate the objective reality of the spirit

world, the more one has the desire to live in accordance with natural

and spiritual laws and is enabled to go directly from earth into the

higher realms of the spirit world.

Betty Eadie, author of Embraced by the Light, explains that it is

possible for the uneducated and unbelieving spirit to be a virtual

prisoner of this earth. This is especially true of those who remain

bonded to the earth through greed, bodily appetites and other earthly

commitments that make it difficult to let go and move on. Such

spirits, she was told during her near-death experience, may not

recognize the energy and light which draws one toward God.

Lacking the faith and power to reach for the light, unenlightened

spirits may actually stay on earth until they learn of the higher power

that surrounds, and is available to them.

23. Is there a good or bad death?

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It is true that it is often said that a death is worth another one. There

is nevertheless a difference. A person who dies while struggling like

a tiger (too much agitations or physical and spiritual tortures) doesn't

have the same fate as someone who dies in his/her sleep or while

talking or praying quietly, without making his/her entourage suffer.

In general, “bad” people fight a lot before dying, whereas “good”

ones leave in peace with a smile.

Also, dying while fulfilling God's will can be considered a good

death; while dying for a selfish reason is a bad death.

24. After entering the spirit world, can we return to loved ones

on earth?

Unknown to most of humanity, the moving back and forth of

spiritual beings to their loved ones on earth is going on night and

day, all over the world. As indicated previously, it is due to our

inability to see spiritually that we have no awareness of the spirit

world. Dreams, a visitation beside one's bed, which seems like a

dream, visions of departed loved ones and appearances of religious

figures are all manifestations of spirit return. The major purpose of

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these visits is to guide those on earth or to comfort those who are

bereaved by a beloved one's passing. Those from the other side are

continually working to elevate the spiritual level of those on earth.

By aiding in the spiritual growth of those on earth, the attending

spirit derives energies for his own advancement.

But this return is conditioned by the blood lineage and the similar

spiritual inclinations. Thus, unless you are related or have similar

desires and aspirations, one cannot go toward another person on

earth.

25. Why can't people on earth see or hear the spirit if it is still

alive and trying to make contact?

It seems from the accounts of people who have had NDEs that the

spiritual self can hear and see everything physical, but the reverse is

not true. Because their spiritual senses are undeveloped, those on the

physical plane usually cannot penetrate this dimension, making

communication impossible.

The spirit on the other hand, may not necessarily know that death has

occurred, and may be bewildered to discover that no one in the

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physical world responds to his efforts to communicate. No one sees

or hears him. It is important for a person to know of the spirit world

before death; otherwise the spirit may enter his new life frustrated

and ignorant of the fact that he has, in fact, passed on. Seemingly

intact, and not realizing that the physical body is dead, the spirit may

wander indefinitely, seeking to make contact with those still in the

physical body. It may be noted here that there are people on the

physical plane whose senses are attuned to the vibrations of the

spiritual world. They have experiences other than the near-death

experience, which give them extraordinary insight into the spiritual

realm. They may be called clairvoyant (if they see spiritually) and/or

clairaudient (if they hear spiritually). While it is often not reported, it

is common for spouses and relatives to receive communication from

their deceased loved ones.

Among noted individuals who have recorded these unique

experiences are Emanuel Swedenborg and Anthony Borgia. Emanuel

Swedenborg was an eighteenth century scientist, philosopher, and

theologian who explained that the Almighty allowed him to make

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frequent visits to the world beyond for a period extending over 25

years. He recorded his extensive experiences as a resource for others

to understand the life hereafter. Borgia likewise has produced

volumes of information on life after death based on spiritual

communications with a deceased nineteenth century priest.

26. Is there time and space in the spiritual world?

Time in the spiritual world is different from ordinary time on earth.

One doesn't die there: the pain to lose a beloved being there is

unknown. Jesus gave us the assurance of the eternal life, when he

said: “He that believes in me, even if he dies, will live; and whoever

lives and believes in me will never die.” (Jn 11:25-26).

If one is in the highest realms, love reigns. And where there is love,

there is happiness. Where there is happiness, there is no awareness of

time. Therefore, there is no time as we know it here. There is no

distinction between thought and action. For example, when you think

about someone, the person appears instantly before you.

However, in the lower realms, because one is very unhappy, time

seem interminable. There is space, but the whole spirit world is a

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reflection of the qualities of the people who live there. Where love

reigns, there is no distance between people. The spirit world is thus

not like our three-dimensional world, but is more like a symbolic

reflection of the inner quality of the people.

27. Can we still enjoy physical and sensual pleasures in the spirit

world; for example, food, drink, and sex?

When a spirit arrives in the spiritual world of transition, his/her

words and his/her acts become absolutely free of all constraints.

He/she can express in words everything that he/she thinks and can

make everything that he/she wants to make. Having been free from

the constraints of his/her physical body, he/she realizes all of a

sudden that he/she has a deep wisdom - it is as if his/her intellectual

capacity has been multiplied by fifty. Although the newcomer can

cling during a certain time to his/her former habits, he/she gets

quickly used to the laws of the spiritual world. The terrestrial honors,

the knowledge, the position, goods and wealth are there of no utility.

The terrestrial desires are deprived of all significance. The only

treasure that he/she carries away with him/her on leaving this

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terrestrial life is the quality of his/her life on earth that is valued from

the standpoint of the truth, beauty and goodness.

Yes. All that is good in human experience, whether it be food, drink,

human affection, or sexual intercourse can be experienced in the

spirit world. Because our physical senses of hearing, seeing,

smelling, tasting, and touching are only poor reflections of our very

sensitive spiritual senses, music, art, fragrances, occasional spiritual

food and the feeling of textures are all more rich and enjoyable in the

spiritual world.

In general, those who had a lot of attachments to the material things

(cigarettes, alcohol, money, drug, sex and other) will have the same

needs in the spiritual world; but unfortunately, living in hell, they

will have a lot of difficulties satisfying this kind of desire.

Swedenborg comments that husbands and wives enjoy intercourse

just as on earth, only happier and richer, because when the love

becomes spiritual, it becomes deeper and purer and therefore more

fully appreciated. Intercourse does not conceive children, however,

because the material element is missing. Nevertheless, it is worth to

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note that this is only possible if the two spouses were indeed close

and harmonized on earth. Otherwise, they will find themselves in too

different levels and therefore, cannot live like husband and wife

anymore.

Since the spiritual world is a world of mind and imagination,

physical nourishment is not necessary for the maintenance of the

spirit. One may still have a desire for familiar physical pleasures as

they were experienced on earth. There is fruit to be eaten; one can

even have a banquet.

It may be useful to mention here that a spirit obsessed with or

addicted to sensual pleasures may sometimes seek to gratify these

desires through a person on earth. This is very harmful to the

spiritual growth of both parties. These spirits are called possessing or

obsessing spirits; they do not realize the harm done by the wrong use

of another's body.

Excessive or unbalanced behavior distracts one from those activities

that nurture spiritual and physical vitality. Edith Fiore, psychologist

and author of The Unquiet Dead, records numerous anecdotal

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accounts of clients who, through hypnosis, were able to identify and

be liberated from such possessing spirits. Dr. Fiore is one of a

growing number of professionals who use hypnosis in dispossession

or spirit release therapy to free clients of emotional traumas due to

spirit possession. It appears that educating the earth-bound and

possessing spirit about the existence and laws of the spirit world can

liberate the spirit to begin his upward journey and the troubled client

to live an emotionally healthy life on earth.

28. What is a near-death experience?

Due to modern technology, the number of people who have been

revived from clinical death and brought back to physical life has

increased tremendously in recent years. Many such individuals have

shared amazingly similar accounts of their experience. Whereas in

the past people may have been reluctant to discuss their experiences,

perhaps due to fear of ridicule, thousands are now reporting near-

death experiences (NDEs). Documented observation on the subject

of the next life reported by individuals who have had near-death

experiences has taken this area of research beyond theory.

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Near-death experiences gained widespread publicity when Dr.

Raymond Moody's book, Life After Life, became a best seller. Dr.

Moody writes convincingly of his vast research on people who were

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clinically dead for a short time and were revived. Elements that

appear most frequently in such accounts are the following:

* The identity of the individual who has died remains intact. The

conscious self leaves the body and observes it in its lifeless state but

feels no break in the continuity of consciousness.

* The sensations associated with leaving the body are described as

being very positive: lightness, brightness, love, joy, peace and

cessation of pain.

* The spirit goes through a dark tunnel with an extremely bright light

at the end.

* Relatives and friends (already deceased) are often seen. Usually

they welcome the person and he may be given the choice to return to

physical life on earth.

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* Often the spirit is greeted by beings of great light and love

perceived to be God, the Creator, or a religious figure such as Jesus.

* There may be a life-review, which is a rapid panoramic view of the

earthly life in chronological order.

* The spirit can hear and observe everything that is happening in the

physical world (even to his body), but cannot communicate with

people on earth through speaking or touching.

* There is instinctive knowledge that in going into the light there is a

point of no return to physical earthly life. Since these accounts come

only from people who have returned to physical life, there was a

point past, which they did not venture.

* When they return to physical life, most people who have had a

NDE feel an enhanced quality in life; there is a lack of fear of dying,

and a new purposefulness in living.

29. Are angels different from spirits of people who have lived on

earth?

There is much interest in angels today. An angel is a spiritual being

who lives in the spiritual realm and, yes, is different from the spirits

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of people who have lived on the earth. The angels were created first,

to assist with the creation of man and woman as well as with the rest

of the creation. The Bible and other scriptures speak of angels as

spiritual beings who serve as messengers or helpers to men and

women on the earth. Without our spiritual senses, we are not aware

of their daily presence in our lives. Have you heard of guardian

angels? It is said that we all have at least two.

The angels of God are beautiful, radiant beings of light, similar in

form to humans, often beautifully clothed, with the ability to speak,

act and fully communicate. We might say that fallen angels are those

spiritual beings, originally of God, who chose not to respond to the

light and have turned away from God. Such spiritual beings seek to

separate or distract humans from fulfilling their purpose, which is to

fully live as God's children.

30. Are there demonic spirits and angels?

Numerous scriptural accounts describe angels who turned against the

pure goodness and love of God, and also turn humankind toward evil

by malicious intent. The master of such forces is often called Satan

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or the devil. There is no doubt that evil exists on earth. Similarly,

those who have communication with the spiritual world state that all

is not goodness and light there as well. Since we know that we enter

the spiritual world at the same level of spiritual development we have

gained while on earth, then it makes sense that those who have had

much give and take with selfishness, revenge and maliciousness will

continue such acts in the spirit world.

There is, therefore, evil and darkness in the spirit world. The

darkness may be a result of ignorance and lack of understanding.

Spiritual guides will enlighten willing souls and offer growth

opportunities to lead the spirit into the light and warmth of higher

realms. Some accounts inform us that ignorance of the need to seek

growth may keep someone in a state of darkness for a long period of

time.

Apart from ignorance, there are also dark forces in the spirit world

created by those of vengeful and malicious desires. Such are the

forces, often called demonic, which influence, obsess or possess

people on earth and which may be instigators of crime and violence,

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sexual abuse and aberrations, and belief in Satanism. A person of

such interests on earth will inevitably be drawn to similar

companionship in the spirit world. The dwelling place of such evil

could certainly be called hell.

Everyone entering the spiritual world, however, should know that a

God of love suffers for those in darkness, ignorance and misery.

Based on desire and willingness, the spirit is given opportunity for an

upward journey. One book recently reprinted, A Wanderer in the

Spirit Lands by Franchezzo, is a vivid descriptive account of this

process of growth and development.

31. Do our prayers for the deceased help?

As a form of positive mental energy, prayer rightly directed

represents our joining our energies with those of God as He seeks the

growth and well-being of His children. Through prayer we cooperate

with both God and the angelic and spiritual beings of the spirit world

in an on-going, cosmic effort for the liberation of humanity.

Because God looks to humankind as co-creators, and because He

cherishes all efforts for the well-being of others, prayer is never

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wasted. Sooner or later, these efforts inevitably bear fruit, assisting in

the positive advancement of those persons on whose behalf they are

made. Calling out a specific name in prayer will draw cosmic energy

to that person.

Praying for someone who has passed on will be a boost on the other

side to enlist the help of spiritual guides for the newcomer. Indeed,

living in the spirit world, spirit persons may be even more sensitive

to the beneficial effects of prayer than they were on earth.

32. Will we meet God and other religious figures?

Everyone in the realms of light knows that there is a Creator. It is

said that this presence is so obvious it cannot be denied. In the spirit

world one can see and experience the source of life. So the first

awesome feeling is said to be, GOD IS! There is no question.

But we are not going to see God as such; since God is not seen but

felt! One sees His manifestations, one feels His comforting and

loving presence. You can only see what has a shape or a color. God

has neither a particular shape nor color.

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Other religious figures, including the founders of world religions, the

saints and prophets, exist in their own dimensions of the spirit world.

The similarity of one's life, heart and knowledge to a particular figure

determines one's closeness to these religious figures. So, it is possible

to meet them.

33. Of what significance are repentance and making amends

before we die?

Wrongs, which cause injury to others, require repentance,

forgiveness and restoration of wholeness. When one has hurt

someone else, unless he/she apologizes to that person, repents for the

hurt caused and is forgiven, he/she will carry that burden into the

spirit world. If someone has something against a person who has not

apologized, progress is impeded in the spirit world.

When we can recognize the hurt brought to others, and make amends

for it by seeking forgiveness, then healing of the spirit can take place.

This liberates both parties for greater love and spiritual growth.

A re-orientation of one's life toward God and love at any point has

great value. If a person can take this step while still on earth, and in

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particular can make amend for any wrong done, this will do much to

enhance his status in the spirit world. The next step for the last

minute repenter is to preserve this new orientation and upon arrival

in the spirit world to do whatever is necessary to continue growth

there.

The quality of the energy that we maintain is affected by whether our

intentions and actions lead us toward, or separate us from goodness

and God.

34. What is the difference between forgiven and non-forgiven

sins?

It is often said that a sin is a sin, and that once committed, it is

marked. It is true. It is preferable not to commit sin at all. In the

spiritual world, all sins committed leave a mark in our mind.

Nevertheless, a forgiven sin looks like a scared injury, whereas the

one that is not forgiven looks like an open injury where flows out pus

or blood, depending on the nature or the gravity of the sin.

35. Are there great and small sins?

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It is true that a sin remains a sin, and separates us from God.

Nevertheless, some sins are more serious than others. In the Bible,

Jesus speaks of unforgivable sins (sins against the Spirit, Marc 3,:

28-29) and forgivable sins (all other sins). According to testimonies,

there are three main categories of great sins according to their

gravity. First, the sexual sins (fornication, adultery and

homosexuality, Ap.14: 4; Jude 6-8; Mat.19:8-10). Next, sins that

violate human rights (murder, suicide and contempt of the other

(Mat.5: 21-26). Finally, the misuse of public properties or

embezzlement of public funds is another great sin (Acts 5:1-10). This

last category concerns the use of everything that belongs to God

(tithe and offering) or to the whole (group, community, nation) for a

private purpose.

In conclusion, when we yield to the flesh, we seriously reduce our

capacity to mobilize the spiritual world. Particularly, for those who

have engaged themselves on the way to spiritual quest and promised

to obey God's law, sin provokes serious damages. The most serious

sins are sexual sins (Mat.19: 9). This has to do with staining our

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blood lineage and violating God’s heart. Only one mistake in this

domain can cancel in one instant all the merits earned and

accumulated during years of efforts and devotion.

36. How are our sins manifested in the spiritual world?

Spirits in the spiritual world cannot improve their conditions without

the cooperation of people on earth. That means, our spiritual selves

were created to live eternally in the spiritual world, based on the

foundation of life on earth. Thus, unless the spiritual people get rid

of the sins committed, they are destined to live, receiving punishment

forever. For example, when a murderer arrives in the spiritual world,

a horrible punishment will be inflicted to him forever. For the one

that will have killed a man with a knife, his/her spiritual person will

also be stabbed. It's the same with a person who killed with a rifle:

he/she will have a bullet in the heart.

Also, the one that beat someone to death with a stone will have

protruded eyes and the body full of sores and blood. The spiritual

person of the one who killed with strokes of feet will be prostrated

with his/her own feet crushing the face to the ground. The one on the

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other hand that killed by poisoning will have a collapsed spiritual

person vomiting blood; and the one that killed with an ax or any

other sharp object, will have the instrument planted in his/her chest.

Among these spiritual people, some try to hide their sins committed

on earth, but they cannot be hidden in spite of their efforts. Spiritual

beings try also to solve the problem of their sins, but this cannot

happen according to their will. Myriads of spirits make serious

efforts to lead a better life than their present situations; once again,

things cannot happen according to their desire. These spiritual beings

regret not to be anymore on earth and are ready to do anything to

eliminate their sins.

However, already recorded information can't be erased easily

anymore. It is very common for all these spiritual beings to want to

hide and to erase their lives on earth and they are ashamed when this

past of sins is shown to others. What is more tragic is that even their

efforts to hide and to erase these mistakes are also clearly shown to

others.

37. What happens to someone who commits suicide?

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This booklet would not be worthwhile without mention of those who

enter the spiritual world as a result of having put an end their own

physical lives. The death of the physical body is determined by

natural law, which is governed by divine law. To take one's physical

life is to break that law, with the result that there must be special care

and arrangements made in the spiritual world. In other words,

breaking natural law must be accounted for before one can go to

higher levels.

According to some psychics, because the person's life was cut short

and her work on earth incomplete, it will be necessary to live out this

uncompleted time in spirit aiding the very ones on earth who were

most hurt by the suicide.

Since the motivation for suicide is usually to avoid unhappiness, we

can assume that the spirit takes such unhappiness into the spiritual

world. Any problems experienced on earth are always better worked

out on earth.

However, if one gives his/her life for someone else (for example a

mother who sacrifices her life to save that of her child at the time of

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an accident), because of the degree of love demonstrated, he/she goes

to the higher spheres. This is the case of some martyrs and saints. Of

course the number of people for whom you give your life determines

the degree of your love and thus how high you can go in the spirit

world.

38. Does suffering on earth have spiritual value?

Few things on earth are inherently good or inherently evil. Money,

power, knowledge, and even love can be used for either positive or

negative purposes and can be either good or evil. Suffering, too, can

be meaningful or meaningless, valuable or worthless.

In the Bible, it is said that in the Last Days, “Two men will be in the

field; one is taken and one left.” (Mat. 24:40-41) Why two people

who live in the same conditions or who are doing the same thing can

have different fates? It is simply due to their motivations or to the

purposes of their acts. It is what constitutes the difference for

example between St Francis of Assisi and all other beggars.

Suffering, for example, that accompanies one's pursuit of a noble

goal, or that produces a depth of character or sensitivity to the

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suffering of others, has positive spiritual merit and no doubt

contributes to spiritual advancement. Indeed, one need look no

further than the recognition that history has accorded those who have

endured suffering for the sake of others, e.g., Gandhi, Martin Luther

King, Jr., Mother Theresa or Nelson Mandela, etc., to see the truth of

this principle.

Further, it is often through suffering that one may come to appreciate

God's grace. If one sees suffering as a means to understand more

deeply the love of God, or indeed to become more God-like, such

suffering will have greater value.

39. Does the spiritual world evolve or is it static?

One thing is certain: God works with man according to the level of

development of his intellect, spirituality (heart) as well as his cultural

environment at a given moment. It is why for example, before

Moses, God could not give His Word to man after the fall. In the

time of Moses, considering the intellectual and spiritual level of man,

God gave the Ten Commandments (Old Testament) and more or less

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one thousand six hundred years later, in the time of Jesus, God gave

the Gospel (New Testament).

This description of the spiritual world, fortunately, depends on the

providential age. The state of the spiritual world, directly after the

fall, is different from the one of Noah's time. And Noah's time was

different from Moses', etc. In brief, the state of the spiritual world in

the time of Jesus was different from the one of the Old Testament,

and is also different from that of our time.

Indeed, the spiritual world evolves according to the principle of the

merit of the age. The level of salvation possible at a given age

depends on the level of sacrifice and investment of heart of those that

lived before. Thus, all sacrifices of the saints and sages of the past

are never lost; because, they all participate in the formation of the

foundation for a better life for the future generations. According to

recent testimonies, more people go to the paradise or in the "good"

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It is worth to note that according to the providential age and the level

of divine grace, serious (radical) changes can take place in the

spiritual world. For example, the disappearance of Paradise and the

high spheres of the intermediate spiritual world to the benefit of

God's Kingdom. There are strong chances that the spiritual world of

this beginning of the twenty-first century is radically different from

that of the twentieth century.

40. Is salvation universal?

Obviously, the road to Heaven passes through hell. While the

unification of the spiritual world and the physical world progresses,

its final phase will be the liberation of hell. God's goal is that one

day, hell is dissolved. God, our loving Parent, won't have any rest as

long as all His children are not enjoying the marvels of His

Kingdom. As Jesus told us in the parables of the lost sheep and that

of the prodigal son, even though thousands of children of God are in

the shelter and in the light, His heart still yearns and craves for the

sinner who wanders in darkness.

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Thus, hell won't last eternally. The light of salvation will one day

even shine on the spirits jailed in the darkest hell. During the

establishment of God's Kingdom on the earth, a way of liberation

will also present itself for those in hell. As hell in the spiritual world

was created after it started on earth, once it will have disappeared on

earth, the other will also disappear.

People preoccupied only with their individual salvation cannot reach

it if they don't first care for the least privileged that are afflicted with

spirit of bitterness and resentments. The saint and the sinner are

God's children. In other words, whoever doesn't like his/her enemy

on earth, will meet him in the spiritual world; he will pull you

downwards in hell. He who loves his enemy on earth and changes

him forever into a friend, will see this former enemy proclaiming his

love before heaven and earth, and will escort him to heaven. Thus,

one doesn't enter alone in God's Kingdom! God will always ask us

the question: “Where is your brother?”

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Besides, how can God be really God, that is Almighty, as long as

some of His children are under the authority of an usurping master?

He must be capable to recover them, whatever it takes.

Of course, it will only be possible when all those living in hell,

whether on earth or in the spiritual world, would have repented and

would have paid completely for their mistakes.

41. Is man predestined? If yes, to what extend?

A lot of people believe that every person has a pre-determined

destiny, written in the stars or in the spiritual world. Others go as far

as believing that God predestines and is responsible for everything

that happens to us whether good or bad.

God is a good being, and everything that he created is only good.

God didn't create evil, but the devil and the fallen man did. God's

goal is only good. He only wants the good for His children. If we

have a mishap, it is due to our mistakes and those of our ancestors or

in order to pay for a future blessing that we don't yet deserve so as to

subtract ourselves from Satan's accusation.

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On the contrary, as a parent who loves His children, God suffers

more when we suffer, even though it is of our own mistake (Gen. 6:

5-6; I Sam.15: 11; Ez.33: 11; Jos. 3: 10; Ez.33: 14-15).

God only predestines the good (Gen. 2:17, Jn. 3: 16). But the

fulfillment of God's will doesn't depend solely on Him. It also

depends on man. God created man to be His co-creator; and as such,

man has a portion of responsibility to accomplish in order for God's

will to be fulfilled (Gen. 2: 17, Mat. 7: 7-8, Marc 5: 34, James. 5: 14-

15, Mat. 19: 21). We all need to participate in the fulfillment of

God's will for us. God cannot do all for us. In other words, God

cannot save us without us doing something.

Let's take some examples. It is well known that the capacity of the

mediums varies according to the spiritual environment. In the

presence of skeptics, they are often disarmed and incapable to show

their powers. Healers affirm that their healing power is especially

great when the patient is opened and more receptive to the work that

they do. Even Jesus' miracles depended on the patient's faith (Marc

5:34).

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Thus, it is true that we don't choose our race, our nation, our tribe,

our language of birth, our parents, etc., because that choice belongs

to God. But once born, we have the responsibility to make of all the

acquired qualities a foundation to be a good person and to contribute

to our tribe's history as well as our nation and our race's fate. That is

our responsibility. No one can do it for us.

Are important events of our life - the day of our death, for example -

predestined? It is said that plans are elaborated in the spiritual world

many years before they can bear fruits on earth. If we see things in

this manner, we will probably consult fortunetellers who will give us

some advice for our life, while believing that they can provide us a

preview of the future. What we have from such people are actually

only possibilities and not absolute events.

In the same way, for all human being, God and the spiritual world

know several possible destinies in advance. One is glorious, others

can be miserable. God places doors of destiny in front each and every

one of us. We have the free will to choose what we want. God didn't

create us like puppets or pawns.

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Freedom comes with responsibility. Thus, man's predestination is not

absolute, but relative, and depends on the fulfillment of his portion of

responsibility. Our destiny is shaped by the choices we make every

day. Decisions bear actions. Actions when repeated create a habit. A

habit that is sustained give birth to character and character leads to

destiny. Therefore, it is our responsibility to make sure our decisions

and choices are good for us to expect a good destiny.

God only predestines absolutely the fulfillment of His will (Is.

46:11). When God chooses a person to accomplish a certain mission,

he only relatively predestines that person (e.g. 95% only). The

chosen person must accomplish her 5% of responsibility so that

God's will can be fulfilled. This is why, if the person fails, at the end

of a certain time, God is going to choose another one to carry

through the same mission. This is how after Adam's failure, God sent

Jesus as second Adam to carry through the same mission (I Cor. 15:

20-21, 45; Ac 1: 15-26). Noah's family had the responsibility to

restore the failure of Adam's family, and Abraham's family also

replaced that of Noah for the same reasons. In the same way, David

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replaced Saul; Salomon replaced David, Joshua replaced Moses,

Mathias replaced Judas, etc.

42. What is conscience and what is its role in our life?

Conscience is the fruit of the relation between our spiritual mind and

our physical mind (instinct), centered on our individual perception of

the truth or what we think to be true (our value system). It is like the

compass for a boat and allows us to make the distinction between

good and evil. It is our biggest master who knows anything about us

before anyone else and what is good and just. It acts in our life like a

filter or a voice that reminds us to do the right thing and guide us

toward God.

Unfortunately, considering the differences that exist in our value

systems, we are more or less sensitive to good or evil. This is what

makes the difference between individuals. There are those that

sharpen their conscience regularly while studying God's word

(perfection of the perception of the truth), and those that choke their

conscience regularly while refusing to listen to its voice (justification

of bad deeds) or to study God's word.

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A person of conscience is a person who follows the voice of his/her

conscience and obeys, although it is sometimes very painful. He/she

is sure to be always on the good side.

Because of the differences in value systems (what is good for one

may be a sin to the other), people from different religions, cultures or

tribes have different consciences. The hope is that as humankind

develops there will come a time when we will all have the same

conscience, that is, we will have the same value system (divine or

God-like) that will allow us to distinguish between good and evil in

the same way.

First, we must make efforts every day to live according to our

conscience, thus restoring the good subject-object relation between

mind and body in the microcosm that we are. We must every day

make some efforts to catch the inspiration from Heaven and act

accordingly to bring substantial results on the earth. By our constant

effort, God's will, first formed in the spiritual world, descends on the

earth and becomes manifested. While we build our terrestrial

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foundation, God's will can be demonstrated on the earth in an even

more powerful manner.

Second, we must constantly fortify ourselves against the vile

influences of the environment that surround us. We must examine

ourselves to see where, in us, Satan can find a hold that will allow

him to invade our life and to divert us from the higher life lived with

God. In this goal, we must study every day God's word to keep the

good manner to live. It is necessary that we discerned, according to

the criteria of God's word, if a particular inspiration comes from a

good or an evil spirit, so as to avoid stumbling by accepting the

guidance of an evil spirit disguised as an angel of light (1 Cor.11:

14).

43. How do spirit persons help people on earth?

In order to be freed of their positions, spirits cannot avoid pain and

suffering without the help of those on earth. In the same way, since

they cannot eliminate their sins by themselves, the spirits finally go

where they lived on earth. They go to their descendants or toward

people of their family and continue to send some signals. However,

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because those living on earth don't understand these signals or are not

conscious of them, some unusual disasters occur, like illness of a

member of the family, financial difficulties or some traffic accidents.

Finally, when the descendants manage to understand the reasons of

these events, and can therefore pray and make some donations for the

spiritual person, the spirit can then be elevated to a better position in

recognition for the services of his/her descendants. However, if those

on earth don't understand the reason of their problems, continually

there will be accidents and other misdemeanors and people are going

to die. Therefore, there will be more problem for the ancestor. Thus,

if a family doesn't feel guilty about anything in its faith, but

nevertheless, has some continuous accidents (small or big), it can be

concluded that this family has some ancestors with complex

problems. In this case, the fastest way to solve these problems is

through prayers of faith.

However, the seer or spiritualist, whose spiritual level is rather low,

can try to solve the problem. But these spirits will only be

temporarily comforted; their suffering and pain cannot disappear

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completely. This constitutes the big difference that exists between

those who know God and those who don't. Spirits can calm

themselves temporarily, but, in spite of time, they will remain the

same. They don't have any solutions from where they are, in spite of

the efforts and waddles that they make from their position. The more

their life becomes difficult, the more difficult and complicated will

become that of their descendants on earth. Spirits of the celestial

world, in order to receive the cooperation of their terrestrial

descendants, come toward them while mobilizing all possible means.

However, because these descendants don't know how to solve the

problem, the family's spiritual fortune is going to decrease and the

painful life of the ancestors is going to continue. In fact, while spirits

who advance to better positions with the help of people on earth can

lead a more comfortable life in the spiritual world, their descendants'

life on earth can be more peaceful.

44. What ties do we have with our ancestors?

Spiritual cooperation is even easier between people of the same

lineage. Thus, an ancestor will go more easily toward one of his/her

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descendant on earth, in order to free him/herself of a burden or to

accomplish an unfinished mission while alive on earth. The aforesaid

descendant must therefore take responsibility for the mistakes and

sins of his/her forebears in addition to his/her own and enjoy their

good fortunes. (Ex. 20: 5)

It is therefore in the setting of the lineage that the ties between the

terrestrial world and the spiritual world are more frequent. Let's listen

to psychoanalyst Carl Jung in a testimony pulled from his

autobiography:

“I understood the strange community of destiny that connects me to

my forebears. [...] I always thought that, me also, I had to answer

questions that destiny had already asked to my forebears, but to

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which no one had found any answer.”

This transmission or bequeathal of spiritual inheritances across

generations also has negative sides: the psychoanalysis shows that

some psychological problems, bound to an unconscious guilt,

sometimes come from unadmitted mistakes of a parent or an ancestor

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(incest, crime, adultery). It calls these phenomena “ghosts”, as all

happens as if a dead was haunting a living.

It goes without saying that a merely materialistic interpretation of

these phenomena is inadequate. Actually, they explain themselves

better in the hypothesis of a relation between a terrestrial person and

an ancestor's spirit. This relation is double-edged, since it will either

permit the dissolution of the ancestral sins, or either encourage their

repetition. When some perverse behaviors are reproduced on several

generations, it is not rare that they finally drag physical flaws in the

progeny.

Before harvesting in the life beyond the fruits of what we sowed on

the earth, we harvested, since our birth, what others before us sowed.

In this logic, we also have on our part the obligation to bequeath a

certain spiritual inheritance to the following generations, starting

with our own children.

Finally, a solidarity that transcends death exists between the human

beings. It is all humanity that returns progressively to God or move

itself away from Him, through every step taken by an individual on

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the earth. Each of us participates in the evolution of the humanity, at

the same time as we accomplish our own growth.

In this collective solidarity some carry a particularly heavy weight;

others on the contrary, inherit particular grants. But each can in

his/her own manner participate in the restoration of God's original

ideal for humanity.

A racist ancestor will inspire us some racist thoughts. A suicidal

ancestor will inspire us some suicidal thoughts. An ancestor who

mistreated his/her children will make us abuser and impatient with

regard to ours. A non-believer ancestor will sow in our heart doubts

about God's existence. These spirits feel threatened by our path of

faith that, for them, it is like a way to judge their lives. They would

prefer we repeated their sins, because it would justify the manner in

which they lived. That’s why many evil deeds and diseases

(hereditary diseases) are repeated from generation to generation.

Sometimes an evil spirit tries to take revenge of past mistakes while

using a terrestrial person as object partner. The terrestrial person can

be either the instrument or the target of his/her vengeance.

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In conclusion, every human is held in the middle between heaven

and hell. We are all responsible to unite the spiritual and physical

worlds while looking for God's grace and paying at the same time

indemnity for the past sins as well as breaking the chains of our

forebears who are in hell. Occupying the position of historic agents

that must unify the spiritual world, we must make efforts every day.

45. What about faults committed against third parties?

The forebears of a third party who have been victims of the cruelties

of our forebears can also pursue us. They become attached to us and

try to avenge the fact that they have been murdered, raped, or have

suffered any other damage from our forebears. Being the fruit of our

ancestors, we are in position to be hated by them. In this setting, they

can inflict on us some illnesses or create some problems to our

children.

We assume the responsibility of the sins of our ancestors through the

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repentance and the achievement of repair acts. “Good actions

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See Question 48 about libation.

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dissipate bad ones” (Holy Koran 11.114), and “Love covers a

multitude of sins.” (1 Pierre 4: 8).

46. What about spiritual possessions?

Numerous people are afflicted without their knowledge by spirits that

possess them, that really penetrate in their body and that tie

themselves to their psyche. They can enter in the body in a moment

of weakness: when one has a shock, when one is unconscious, when

one has a strong fever, when one drank alcohol or took drugs. It is in

such opportunities that the possessive spirits can enter in us or in our

fetus (case of a pregnant woman).

If we count the seven generations that preceded us, we have all

distinctly about a hundred ancestors in our direct lineage and

hundreds more if we include our brothers, sisters, uncles and aunts.

Among these hundreds of people, there are definitely some who were

adulterous, murderers, rapists and thieves. Each one of us is

connected to his/her ancestors and must necessarily face the

problems of their sins. This is why, no matter how much we are

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virtuous, it is impossible to avoid to be attacked by evil spirits that

carry our hereditary sins.

Besides, if we assume a public responsibility, we must necessarily

settle the problems of the sins of our forebears that had the same

mission. The loads of a function can exercise an enormous spiritual

pressure on a person, and they can transform a generous man with

agreeable manners in someone arrogant, nervous or full of

suspicions.

Although the work of exorcists is incontestable, it is important to

note that it only brings a temporary relief. Indeed, the same causes

producing the same effects, the spirit that leaves always has a chance

to come back. Exorcists' work should be completed by a work of

education and complete liberation, for both the possessive spirit and

the possessed. There is hope that soon there will be exorcists capable

of doing this kind of work.

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47. What about reincarnation?

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A book dedicated to this topic is in writing in order to better explain and evaluate
this theory, so please suffer that I will not dwell much on this topic here.

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According to reincarnation theoreticians, every man who lives

presently on earth was there already before, in another century or a

few years ago under another form. For example, he/she has been in

another previous life, a White or a Black, an American or a South

African, a French or a Chinese, a man or a woman, (and even an

animal, for a trend called “trans-migration”). And if he/she is well-

to-do today, it is that he/she is harvesting the fruits of his/her good

previous life (good karma); or if he/she is a destitute, it is because

he/she is paying for the mistakes of his/her previous life (bad karma).

The theory of the reincarnation is based on the fact that a kindness or

a bad behavior always revisits his/her author (law of karma). It

sustains that although man is perfectible, the perfection is not

possible in only one life. Therefore, the individual must go through

several incarnations (return with another body) to finally reach the

apex of his/her life.

The doctrine of the reincarnation, very popular nowadays, is a

distorted viewpoint of the process of interaction between the world

of the spirits and the terrestrial world. To understand the part of truth

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that this doctrine contains, it is necessary to come back to its oriental

sources. Hinduism and Buddhism see things from the principle that

the individuality doesn't survive after death. The famous explorer

Alexandra David-Neil underlined that one cannot speak of

reincarnation without asking the question: “What is reincarnated?”

Because, according to the oriental doctrine, the “I” is not permanent

(eternal).

The Judeo-Christian monotheistic tradition affirms on the contrary

that the spirit of every human being remained eternally

individualized. Therefore, we cannot transpose the doctrine of the

reincarnation from a context to another without specifying what we

are speaking about.

Finally, it is necessary to understand that it is not the individuality

that is reincarnated, but the karma itself. While leaving his/her body

of flesh, a person leaves behind his/her karma that is going to be

reincarnated in other terrestrial lives. At the same time, s/he remains

bound to this karma and therefore also to the terrestrial people who

inherit of it, until his/her final solution.

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As for the supposed “memories of previous lives,” gotten either

spontaneously or under hypnosis, they can actually be explained by

the fusion relationships that can exist between a spirit and a person

on earth. In fact, what is interpreted, as a “previous life” is often only

the set of earthly memories of a “disembodied spirit.”

Hypnosis, often used to make a person “relive” his/her “previous

lives”, actually encourages the psychic permeability and makes a

person incapable to distinguish what belongs to him in essence from

what infiltrated in his/her from an outside source. It is recognized for

a long time that the use of hypnosis or all other “regressive”

technique, so-called psychotherapy, frequently generates “false

memories.”

A fusion tie with a spirit leading to the impression of reincarnation

can also be gotten in an accidental way. As an example, let's study

briefly the famous 20 cases suggesting the phenomenon of

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reincarnation of Ian Stevenson . The general scenarios of all these

cases are like this: after an illness or a loss of memory, a child has a
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Ian Stevenson, 20 Cases Suggesting the Reincarnation Phenomenon, Paris, Sand,
1985.

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problem knowing his identity. He doesn't recognize his parents

anymore and pretends to be someone who would have lived few

kilometers away and who would have died of a violent or premature

death some years ago. The majority of these cases (of Ian Stevenson)

happened in India, where this theory started and people strongly

believe in the reincarnation.

Several elements here militate strongly more in favor of a possible

possession rather than that of the reincarnation: the distance and the

very short time that separate the death from the time the child will

change identity; the fact that this change occurs to a child, and on the

occasion of an illness, condition doubling favorable to the psychic

permeability; the fact that these troubles of identity come with

serious neurotic symptoms to the child and delay his/her

psychological growth; finally, the fact that the dead in question are

all from a violent or premature death, what, as we know, can create

in most of these spirits a violent refusal to accept their death and a

powerful desire to come back on earth.

48. How do evil persons resurrect?

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Evil people or people bound to sin can also resurrect through the

phenomenon of spiritual cooperation. Therefore, they can also

benefit from the merit of the age while descending toward men on

earth. But unfortunately, they cannot descend and do things as they

wish, and even though they arrive there, all their works don't have for

consequence to make them benefit from the merits of the returning

resurrection. These works must first of all have as consequences to

establish a condition of indemnity aiming at erasing the sins of these

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people by punishing them, while allowing the good people on earth

to liquidate their spiritual debts.

Let's take the case of a good person on earth who is qualified to pass

from one level of merit to another (familial to tribal for example).

However, if he/she has a certain debt of sins, either his/hers or those

of his/her forebears, he/she cannot go to the higher level without

liquidating this debt through a corresponding indemnity condition. In

this case, God can allow evil spirits to torment him/her in

punishment for his/her sins (or those of his/her ancestors). If this

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This means that their works have the effect of exercising judgment on behalf of
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good person endures the torment without complaining and with a

good heart, then he/she can move to the higher level without Satan's

accusation. In this case, the evil spirits who have participated in this

task receive also some of the merit. However, if the good person

does not welcome well the punishment, he/she will loose the merit

for that period, until the following opportunity or until his/her

descendant will behave otherwise. Therefore the evil spirits who

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inflicted the punishment would have lost also.

Thus, every time that a person is ready to pass to a higher sphere of

the merit of the age, he/she must necessarily lay a condition of

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It is worth noting that when the evil spirit does evil or descent to torment, it is
not conscious that its action will bring any benefit. The spirit is just doing what it is
used to do – evil. This is a special grace of God to allow those close to Him to
redeem themselves. That’s why in religious life, we are encourage to love our
enemies, to love those who persecute us. In so doing, we transform them into allied
and friends. Yet, it is also important to know that when the good person endures
the pain and persecution, this makes the evil spirit tormenting him/her to suffer as
it expected the good person to retaliate or avenge him/herself, and finally the spirit
goes through a process of “catharsis” or purification itself, as it discovers another
way of dealing with injustice. That’s why it can evolve to a higher realm of the
spiritual world. This is God’s secret to eliminate ultimately hell and evil. As the
saying goes, “It takes good people to stand back and do nothing for evil to
multiply.” When good people challenge evil with true love, evil declines.

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indemnity corresponding to the debt of sins that him/herself

contracted or those that his/her forebears contracted.

Two methods exist for the work of the evil spirits. Either they inflict

themselves directly the punishment, or they make it through another

person on earth. In this case, they go through one or several evil

people on earth and push them to torment or to create problems to the

good person on earth who needs to liquidate his/her debt of sins.

49. What are some guidelines for disposing of one's estate?

In Africa, the tradition of writing a will is not as popular as in other

continents; if yes, it is often verbal (a word to a friend or a senior

relative). Thus, all the problems that arise after many people have

died. Not only we must make it a habit to write our wills (and

preferably, before a notary public), but also we must pay attention to

the content. A will that causes hatred and conflicts between our

descendants is a curse for our lineage. No ancestor can be in peace as

long as his/her descendants are fighting each other on earth. He/she

will suffer until this problem is solved, even if it might take

thousands of generations.

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Jesus says: “Everything that you will bind on the earth will be bound

in heaven, and what you loose on the earth will be loose in heaven.”

(Matt. 18:18). This is why, it is important to solve all problems of

our lives and to go to the spirit world without grudges or

resentments. In fact, it is better and easier to solve the problems on

earth.

Perhaps one could look at it this way: material possessions are a

legacy, which can bring about certain good and joy to others. It is

one last service that one can control with a clear will. It may be wise

to imagine watching the distribution of one's personal estate without

being able to communicate your desire for its use. Then make a will

accordingly as a final unselfish act. To come back to the question of

good or bad death, we can also say that if we can solve all problems

with our descendants before our death, then we will have a good

death.

50. What about some ceremonies that are asked of us to appease

the ancestors?

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In most tribes of Africa, when someone is sick or suffers from

misfortune, after the consultation of a “seer” or a “Sangoma,” he/she

is often asked to make a libation for such and such ancestors who

may be annoyed with the victim or his/her family.

These tribes, in general, are very conscious (unfortunately more that

some religious people) of the impact of the mistakes or the blessings

of the forebears on the descendants, and of the necessity to be always

in harmony with them. But in most cases, one puts more emphasis on

the external aspects of the problems while disregarding the essential.

The libation made can calm the ancestor for some time, but the true

problem remains: that of the improvement of his/her condition. It is

necessary to try to know how he/she lived, those that he/she hurt in

his/her life, etc., and to try to repair the wrong.

For example, if he/she lived without God, it is necessary to pray for

him, so that he/she is visited by believing spirits. If he/she killed

someone in another family or in his/her own family, to make an

effort to bring at least this family's member to conversion (to give

life). If he/she had stolen from someone, to go and make a special

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donation to a descendant of the victim's lineage, etc. This solution

will have a bigger impact on the ancestor's life in the spiritual world.

Indeed, when an ancestor's spiritual condition in the spiritual world

improves, it improves by ricochet the conditions of the descendants

on earth, and vice versa.

Thus, the acts of libation should serve or be understood in this sense.

51. Is there marriage in the next life? If I'm married now, will

our family be together?

According to Emanuel Swedenborg, people who were married on the

earth meet in the spiritual world, recognize one another and may

want to live together as they lived on earth. As the superficialities

drop off, the couple will discover what they are like inwardly, what

their love and attraction were and whether they can continue to live

as one. Here, one reviews everything that our spouse tried to hide

from us and what one succeeded to hide from him/her. Furthermore,

one feels everything that it could cause, like spiritual and emotional

damages, and naturally, one feels unworthy of the other while

moving away of ex-spouse forever. Thus, a marriage without God's

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love and blessing may soon disintegrate. Where love is undeveloped,

growth is necessary before such blessed oneness can be experienced

and enjoyed. In fact, misuse of love and sex during one's earthly life

leaves a deep scar on the spirit, which can be mended only through

true love.

Truly loving marriages are perhaps God's greatest gift. These

marriages in which the love of God is expressed between the spouses

are for eternity. Each person experiences a deep inner relationship of

love with God and with his spouse. Such a marriage is a union where

each individual continues to grow close both to God and to his or her

mate in the marital relationship. Where children were born to such a

union, the depth of love shared on earth keeps the family together in

the spiritual world.

52. What is the fundamental meaning of love?

Love, as the letter can explain, is the state of mind where you are

acting with all your heart, sincerely and devotedly for others. In

love, there are conjugal love, spiritual love, and religious agape love.

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CONJUGAL LOVE

The conjugal love is the love where men and women are connected

physically. On earth, we can feel emotion when our bodies can meet

and love. But in heaven, a man and woman without physical bodies

can love. The conjugal love between those high spirits (those who

are close to God) is like a beautiful picture. Since the bodies of the

two become totally one when they love, they can feel a strong

emotion through their bodies and minds that goes beyond the feeling

of love they felt on earth. It is like creating a higher existence from

the state of the total absence of the ego. It is like feeling you are in a

magical world.

Also, you can contemplate the scene of making love with your own

eyes. Couples on earth make love in their bedroom most of the time.

Here, in the spiritual world, that is not absolutely the case. It is not a

hidden love that you can only make in the bedroom. In heaven, you

could make love among wild flowers in a field, on a beautiful land or

on an ocean wave. You can even make it in the mountain where the

birds are singing and the scene is so beautiful that those who watch

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you will become intoxicated. Rather than feeling shame or disgrace

as you felt on the earth, you can observe the scene with a peaceful

mind, admiring the beauty.

Hell is exactly the opposite. People in hell make love while hiding,

and those who see such acts curse them. They point their fingers at

them saying they are ugly. Those love scenes in hell are very similar

to those on earth.

SPIRITUAL LOVE

Since spiritual love is not physically observed through the action of

the body, it appears to some as though it is not related to those who

live on the earth. Yet, it is a love that is absolutely necessary to those

who live on the earth. Since everybody has his/her own inner self, if

you don't cultivate it well, you are going to encounter many problems

in making your love complete (becoming one as husband and wife)

in heaven.

For example, suppose there is one couple where the husband's inner

self is well cultivated whereas the inner self of the wife is not; then,

there won't be a complete love in this family. Then what will

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happen? They won't be able to make an elegant and beautiful love.

Yet since they have a desire to love, they will make conjugal love

with only limited love, in limited places, such as their bedroom.

Then, how can this couple make a complete love? When the

husband's heart to respect his wife and the wife's heart to love her

husband becomes one, their love can develop and mature into a

complete love. Since this takes a longer time to achieve in heaven,

when you are on earth, with your own physical body, you must try to

cultivate your heart and bear the fruit of complete love.

In conclusion, we must use well our short life on earth, in

anticipation of the complete love that waits for the mature couple in

heaven. The couples bear the fruit of complete love by cultivating

and encouraging each other to achieve true love.

AGAPE LOVE DUE TO RELIGION

When God created us, He bestowed on us the capacity for

unconditional love. This is agape love. However, due to the fall of

man and the subsequent changes over the ages, the original standard

of the love that God gave to us has been deteriorating. Thus, because

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of the consequent existence of hell, God and humanity endured so

much suffering in their hearts. In reverse, by acknowledging the

value of unconditional and fundamental love, the path of the

liberation of hell can be opened, and hell can be destroyed. The

conjugal love and the spiritual love must only exist between husband

and wife. However, by the destruction of this kind of love

relationship, humanity became separated from their foundation of

God's unconditional love. God wanted to endlessly bestow love upon

us. With this love, you want to give and give, and it becomes bigger

and bigger even after you give.

Nevertheless, since the foundation was destroyed, today, the path to

salvation has become difficult. By establishing the true sense of

husband and wife, we must love, trust and have a conciliatory

attitude toward each other. Sometimes, we must forgive and

reconcile with each another.

Thus, by becoming one with the love that God granted us, the path

toward the liberation of all humanity will be opened and hell in the

world of eternity is going to disappear. In the same way, if we trust

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and love each other, neither hell nor war will afflict humanity.

Because we led our lives without knowing this principle, the way to

the heavenly world became complicated, and the groaning

punishment of hell came into being. We must cultivate and keep a

strong love between husband and wife, and cultivate the fundamental

inborn love God bestowed to us.

53. What about the life of a couple that one of the partners is

dead?

If on earth a couple lived under God's blessing, it is possible, at least

from time to time, to experiment a normal married life, even when

one of the spouses doesn't have anymore a physical body. It is God's

special grace in order to allow the couple to be able to continue to

accomplish their mission on earth. In this case, the spouse who is in

the spiritual world should wait until the other joins him/her so that

together, they can enter the Kingdom.

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spiritual being and an earthly person. As in most cases, it is a

source of problems for the one who is on earth.

54. Who is Lucifer and how did he become Satan?

Lucifer was the chief of the angels, or Archangel created by God.

Everything that God created was good. God didn't create Satan. He

created a good angel who became evil and therefore His enemy,

Satan (Ez. 28:12-19). Therefore, Lucifer, like Adam and Eve, was

created pure but not perfect. He was still growing toward perfection

when he diverted himself from God. He diverted himself from God

while dragging Eve, Adam and all angels who followed him in the

illicit love (Jude 6-8, Gen. 2: 25, Gen. 3: 7, Gen. 39: 6-9, Mat. 15:11,

Mat. 19:9, Ap.14: 4).

Since then, Lucifer lives in a state of insecurity, of fear, and forgot

the life that he led before with God. He took what belongs to

someone else. He has been trapped by his selfishness and his

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There stories of people who entertain a sex life on a regular basis or occasionally
with an unknown spirit or fairy.

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excessive desire to enjoy. He thought that he could go eternally in

opposition to God and create a force even bigger than God's.

Lucifer and his henchmen, day and night, work to stop human beings

from going to God, from reading or listening to God's word. He

constantly accuses humans in front of God, as long as there is any

base of debt of sins for a given level that a person should reach in his

relation with God. Where there is love and unity, Satan is going to do

everything to create division and suspicion. Where there is faith, he

is going to use all means to create doubt and confusion. Where there

is serenity, he is going to create insecurity, fear and isolation. One of

the most current ways is to create diseases like cancers, illnesses of

the digestive system, diseases of the prostate, diseases of the

circulatory system, diseases of the respiratory system, illnesses

typical to women, etc. This is done directly by Lucifer himself or

through our nearest forebears to him. They torment the human beings

to weaken them psychologically and to divert them from God.

Unfortunately, because of our blood lineage with Satan (Jn. 8:44,

Mat. 3:7, Matt. 23:33), God cannot intervene. God doesn't intervene

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in anything link to blood lineage. This is why a person of faith must

make enormous efforts to cut him/herself from the satanic blood

lineage and to receive God's help.

55. What to do in case of spiritual disease?

A spiritual disease is an illness whose cause is spiritual, that is,

inflicted by a malevolent spirit or caused by a violation of spiritual

laws (sin). A physical disease is due to natural causes. For example,

illnesses due to the change of climate, a burn or an injury due to an

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accident, etc. It appears that eighty percent or more of the illnesses

we suffer from have spiritual reasons. It is why some are incurable or

difficult to track down by medicine, or difficult to heal. In general,

medicine alone cannot help us. Prayers and some indemnity

conditions are also necessary.

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It is worth noting that this distinction is quite relative, as actually all diseases
come from sin. If our first human ancestors did not fall, we will not suffer from
disease as we would have become lords of creation and no creature (including
viruses) would have had resentment against humankind (Rm 8: 18-20) and tried to
destroy us. Germs and others would be useful in other ways. God’s kingdom is a
world of no incurable disease (no death due to illness) and no doctors but
ourselves.

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A formula exists for the restoration of health. The restoration of

health (RH) is equal to: (in dividend, over the fraction), we have the

foundation of faith (FF), plus the foundation of substance (FS), plus

the healing technique (HT), plus the divine grace (DG); and (in

divider, under the fraction), the amount of indemnity (I) to pay for

our sins.

The foundation of faith or the vertical relationship with God must be

established by the patient or his/her representative according to the

situation, as the central figure. For that, he/she needs an object of

condition or a required offering to indemnify the debt of personal or

ancestral sins. For example, to establish the foundation of faith, a

condition of prayer, fasting or reading of God's word, etc., and this

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during a precise period of time may be necessary. In general, the

time must be based on the numbers three, four, seven, twelve,

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Dr. Schelig Schaffer wrote:
FF + FS + HT + DG
RH = ------------------------- ≥ 1
I
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Time here is an important factor. For example, it can mean the respect of the
hour, the number of minutes or hours of the prayer.

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twenty-one or forty. For example, three hours, three days, forty days

or four years.

The foundation of substance, which is the horizontal relationship

with the doctor or healer, must be established by the patient or

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his/her representative. Here, one must have faith in the physician.

The patient has the responsibility to respect the physician's

prescriptions.

The healing technique refers to the therapeutic technique used by the

physician or the healer. For example, the massage, the prescription of

tablets, the chemotherapy, etc. If the other conditions are

accomplished, even simple water prescribed by the physician can

heal the patient.

The divine grace, which is an important element, depends on the

providential age and the patient's sincerity in his/her repentance. It is

God's forgiveness for the sin (s) that was (were) responsible for the

sickness.

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Marc 5: 34, James 5:15 or Matt. 7: 7-8. The patient has a portion of
responsibility to fulfill in order to be healed.

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The amount of indemnity refers to the amount to be paid to recover

the lost health (keep Satan away from us or not to be accused

anymore by Satan) due to a committed mistake, this means, the price

to pay for the illness to go away.

Thus, when the quotient (that means, the result of the dividend over

the divider) is superior or equal to one, the patient will be healed. But

if it is smaller than one, the patient will continue to suffer, sometimes

going from hospital to hospitals and doctor to doctors.

This is very important, especially for religious people. If you are

sick, instead of panicking or rushing to the hospital, you should first

pray and check what you have done wrong lately and repent for it. If

a child is ill, the parents should kneel down and repent first for their

sins and pray for the child. It is only after that you can go to the

hospital to do a check-up and see if the sickness is still there.

Anyway, quite often, you will realize that the fever or the illness is

gone.
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56. What has been the fate of some of the historic figures?
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The answer to this question is made of excerpts from Dr. Sang Hun Lee’s book,
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SOCRATES

A lot of people would think about Socrates when they are in a

confused and complex situation in their thought. A human looks for

God according to his/her original nature given at birth. Before human

beings can recognize rationally, the fact is that they were created by

God, and they are in a relation of heart with God, in a parent-child

relationship with Him. Thus, our original mind, to go necessarily

toward God, will look for and will find God. However, if you are too

carried away by your own thought, you are going to lose God. I think

that Socrates is such a person.

To meet this person, I had to make many efforts. However, it was not

easy to meet him. The place where he lives is located at the lowest

level of the middle spiritual world. The reason for which it was

difficult to meet him is that he didn't want my visit. When I paid a

visit to him the third time, he finally accepted to meet me with a dark

and sad facial expression. The reason for which he didn't want me is

that he doesn't like to discuss with people who have a philosophy

meetings with these former leaders.

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different from his. He wanted to continue to keep the fruit of his own

thought, and especially, didn't see the necessity of following another

ideology. He was very arrogant and didn't like to speak even. He

didn't want to listen to me either…

When he has a problem, he is not ready to meet another person until

his problem is solved. Thus, his surroundings are sinister. He keeps a

good distance from others. He never try to have any interest in and

harmony with nature in which the flowers bloom and fade. He is not

interested in the fact that humankind’s life and death come from the

power of God or God's existence. Because of this, it seems that he

will need a lot of time to eliminate his egotism…

KIM IL SUNG

To meet him I may have looked everywhere… I asked all around for

his whereabouts, but no one knew it. Finally, I decided to descend to

lower levels in search of him. When I descended to the lowest level, I

really felt that hell exists. Then, what happened? A giant wounded by

a knife and a gun was prostrated at a door. Not capable of entering,

he sat down. What pathetic stage! I asked him: “Are you by any

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chance President Kim Il Sung?” He was crying and did not even

raise his face. He asked who I was…

He was bleeding from everywhere, but turned around and knelt

down. He said: “I committed so much sins. I hurt so many people;

and now, I am paying for it.” I asked him: “Why don't you enter,

instead of remaining outside here at the door?” He answered me: “I

would have liked to, but as soon as I enter, those people throw

stones, knives, and all sorts of things at me; fire at me and create

such an uprising that I can’t bear. Also, they shout and say, ‘Go

away, you son of a bitch!’ That’s why I can’t stay inside.”

“Why do you look for me? Do you think that my son Kim Jung Il

would be informed of my misery? *orth Korea is going to perish. I

already knew it, but I could not do anything for it. …. I had never

known that *orth Korean people shouted and cried so loud. I didn't

know really that my sin was this big. *obody welcomes me wherever

I go… Can you save me?”… But I could not bear such a gruesome

scene...

KARL MARX

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Karl Marx lived on earth as the chief of the bad people. Why was he

so cruel? His rebellion was due to the resentment that he felt against

the dismissal of his ideas. Indeed, he believed his ideas were

superior. He was not opened to the dialogue because of his big pride

and his arrogance about his thought. Then, he rebelled against the

social system, and his thought became the basis for the revolution of

mad crowds. I wondered where such a brutal person, addicted by his

own ideas during his life on earth, could really live in the spiritual

world.

It was not so easy to find him in the beginning. But after, I realized

that birds of the same feathers flock together. Then, to find him, I

should have asked here and there, where one could find

revolutionaries.

Those that worked for the revolution on earth are addicted again by

the same ideals in the spiritual world. All around where Karl Marx

lives, I found ruined buildings similar to a detention centre for war

prisoners. In these houses, there were a lot of people who looked like

survivors of a defeated army. There were those lying tired having

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nothing to do, disabled who were walking on clutches. Their faces

looked depressed, reflecting the miserable realities of war.

Nevertheless, they were going somewhere. They followed a guide.

Then, I heard someone shouting with a strong voice from a hill: “My

dear comrades!” He shouted. “Let's start again! We cannot be

defeated here. Let's encourage ourselves mutually and let's fight

once again! The victory is ours.” He repeated this kind of rhetoric in

a very loud voice. The man who was shouting was indeed Karl Marx.

I waited at the rear of the auditorium to meet him. People hesitated to

follow him, but he insisted continually on showing that his theory

was beneficial…

LENIN

As figurehead of the Communist revolution, Lenin may be a big

personality for the communist countries, but he is the lowest person

in front of God. Where does he live in the spiritual world? I was at

his home. I met him there and together, we debated communism.

When I entered his home, there was a very high security and all

visitors were thoroughly searched. Therefore, the access in his home

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was very difficult. To get an audience was also very complicated. To

reassure the security staff, I told them: “I am going to take good care

of your master, let me enter.” Finally I could enter.

Lenin was neither big nor gigantic. His face was very beautiful and

gave an impression of strength. He asked me: “What do you want to

accomplish while meeting me?” I answered: “I have always had a

big interest for your thought. I want to learn it directly from you.”

Lenin didn't open up easily. He says: “I am not generous to debate

my thought so comfortably with an unknown person.” He tried to

verify my identity. When I presented myself as a physician, he

answered: “Why should a physician like you be interested in the

revolution?” His heart was not really opened enough so that we

could discuss. Then I replied: “Because you are a very important

person, I am very honored to be able to meet you. I would like to

invite you at my home.” He thanked me politely and deeply.

Therefore, I told him that I would come back the following day to

look for him.

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The following day, I didn't enter. I rather sent someone to call for

him. But what was not my surprise at my messenger's return: Lenin

had disappeared, although he strongly promised to wait for me! I

asked those that were there when did he leave and his whereabouts.

But no one knew anything. All my plans were compromised. All

houses at the surroundings were ruined and dark. These slums were

very close to each other. Why didn't he want to meet me again? I

considered several hypotheses. During the two following days, I

explored all around from his home. While walking, I tried to find the

inspiration.

After some days, I discovered a new house among those that

surrounded Lenin's lodging. It was not bigger than the one of Lenin.

Him and a group of people came out of this new house. However, I

could understand that they were in difficulty. Lenin didn't present

anymore his assurance and strength of the other day. He seemed

tense and anguished. What was the reason for it? I tried to guess. In

any case, after their exit of the house, they took a direction different

from the one of Lenin's home. I followed them from afar. I noted that

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someone else was oppressing Lenin. The group itself dissolved and

each went alone. I didn't want to lose view of them; therefore I

followed them very discreetly. They arrived to one intermediate

point and regrouped themselves once again. I wondered what had to

be their final destination. I didn't linger to the knowledge. They

moved toward a source.

There, they sat down side by side. I stood in such a way that I could

follow their conversation. I heard Lenin's voice: “My friends,” he

said, “we must fight here and must win the victory. Otherwise, we

will be all outcast. A dangerous circumstance is coming.” A young

man continued in these terms: “Although we are well united, because

we are few, I think that it will be difficult for us to win.” After his

intervention, the group remained silent for a moment. Then Lenin's

voice was heard again: “If our identity is known to the other, we will

be in danger. Then, let's move elsewhere and let's remain over there!

If we move in a small house, we will be more in security.” I

wondered why they were there and why they had to converse in

secret. I didn't linger to satisfy my curiosity.

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If they had met at their residence, they could have been monitored. I

picked from their conversation that in their residence, because they

secretly spy mutually on each other, they couldn’t reveal any secrets.

Because Lenin followed a false theory, although he was a big leader

in a nation, his life is finally miserable. Therefore he could not speak

with dignity, not even a word, and could not have a comfortable

place where to live in the other world. If he had lived well on earth,

in the spiritual world he would be able to walk with confidence and

pride. However, he leads a limited life, always in insecurity and fear.

Lenin's situation is a good lesson for those of his kind who live on

earth. How do we have to live in order to prepare ourselves for the

eternal life? …

STALIN

When God created this world, he limited our brain and reasoning

capacities. But, Stalin lived on earth, exercising his authority as if he

was himself God. He wanted to go beyond the limits of God's

creatures.

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It was not difficult to find Stalin. I thought that he would live next to

Karl Marx. To a place not far from Stalin, a lot of people often

assemble. He participates in the meetings, and proudly, tried to show

his authority as he did on earth.

The houses that are around his look small, in clay and surrounded of

a gate. Those that live there are poor. All had to serve Stalin like a

god on earth. All is desolate and ruined here. There is a horrible

atmosphere that inspires a big insecurity and an aggressiveness at all

times, as one expects to be attacked suddenly. You feel observed

constantly. How is Stalin treated? Since he lived on earth like a king,

is he treated as such in the spiritual world?

After having examined the vicinity silently during some days, I

observed the following scene: a person opened the door of his house

and invited another to enter. She was calling in Stalin. I was curious

to know why he had to hide and enter secretly in the house. While I

watched, a man and a woman entered, just as afraid. Then, I waited

during a long time, no one else left nor entered in the house. I

changed myself in rags such as a beggar and went closer to the

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house. I was ready to say: “I came to beg for food.” But fearing to be

discovered, I went to the door to listen, and I heard someone say: “I

cannot bear anymore to see my blood brothers suffering. Let's go

back. Let's have comfortable lives in our families!”

Then, I heard Stalin's voice. He said: “Before coming here, I have

several times fought for my nation and my brothers. In light of this,

how can we accept defeat? You don't understand our situation. If we

are united, we can gain victory.” Then, a woman shouted: “His

Majesty Stalin! You haven’t given us anything but suffering and

tears. We are not able to follow you or serve you anymore.” After,

she began to cry.

Why could they be here? Because most inhabitants here are those

that opposed Stalin's autocracy. If Stalin's disciples find them, their

families will be destroyed. Therefore they meet secretly not to be

seen. However, what was Stalin doing among them? Why does he act

secretly? It was very difficult to identify him properly just by

observation.

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One day, I could enter his home while carrying a mask. When I said:

“I came here to meet the big master.” A young man came to ask me:

“From where do you come? Who are you?” I answered him: “I

learned that the master that I want to meet lives here, then I came to

receive his teaching.” I waited for a good moment but Stalin didn't

leave. It is rather another young man who came to tell me: “Our

master won't go to a place where people don't honor him as king.”

But suddenly, a strange thing happened. I was facing the gate and

Stalin appeared suddenly behind me. As I tried to turn to look at him,

a few young people appeared suddenly and held me strongly while

shouting: “How did you dare to come here?” Quickly, I told them: “I

came to meet my venerable master. What is wrong with this?” They

said: “Show us your identity!”…

Stalin asked me: “What do you want to know?” As I had anyway a

keen interest in his thought, I answered him: “I want to learn your

thought.” He said: “Then, let's begin tomorrow.” I retorted: “Because

I am here now, I would like to learn something from you today.” He

suggested that we meet elsewhere, because the place was not

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indicated to philosophize. Finally, I promised to meet him the

following day and I left. However, at the time of getting out of the

property, the same young people asked me not to come any more as I

would be seriously in danger.

The following day, I met Stalin in a dark and gloomy place, a little

far from his home. He was there alone. I asked him then: “Why are

you alone whereas you are a big man?” He didn't immediately

answer. He guided me rightly toward a quiet room. It was a secret

place for him. There, he asked me: “Do you really want to learn my

theory?” I answered “yes,” but he made me understand that he was

not in the mood to discuss with enthusiasm of his theory. It is only

thereafter that he himself decided to answer my question in these

terms: “Because I live as a hermit. If I speak publicly of my theory, I

will immediately be expelled from here. Very few people here know

who I really am. I am even curious to know how you could recognize

me.” … After having given him some relative explanations, he asked

me to find him a place where to hide, and that he would follow me

anywhere.

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He continued: “When I was in the physical world, I was treated like

a savior.” I asked him: “Then, why do you lead a life of solitude

now?” He answered me: “Because people don't treat me well.” He

didn't yet recognize that his theory was false…

HITLER

Hitler killed cruelly the Jews. Of all history murderers, Hitler

inflicted the cruelest massacre. I thought that he would live in a bad

group.

I was very occupied to look for the people that I wanted to meet. In

the continuation of my efforts, it happened that I heard a group of

Jews shouting: “Let's kill him.” When I turned around, I saw a very

big crowd of chained people shouting: “Kill him! Kill him!” The

crowd was very big. Besides, I could not distinguish easily what was

the target of this crowd. It was shouting continually. Many were

covered with blood. Some fell and were dragged by the others. It was

a tragic scene, reminding of a battlefield. Until then I didn't manage

to discern the object of their murderous anger. While looking at all

sides, I ended up seeing the unfortunate person. I had the impression

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to be in a minefield. “Oh my God! What is go on here?” I exclaimed

at the sight of a naked man, hung to a tree. I had problems seeing him

properly as he was in the middle of the crowd. No one seemed to

consider him as a human being. They shouted: “You must suffer

more than what you did to us. Are you ashamed? Women! Hold and

touch the testes of this infamous tyrant. How much attractive are his

testicles! He slaughtered millions of people as if they were animals.

Touch the characters that are written on his chest. What do they

say? Are you the King of the *azis? You exercised tyranny on us,

now we are going to judge you like a people judges his bad king.”

They threw him all sorts of imprecations and abuses: “Pull his eyes!

Pull his hair! Put fire on his hair!” One cannot imagine on earth

similar torture, whatever the mistakes the person had committed.

But in front of such a tragic scene, it was laborious to leave without

doing something. Hitler had to pay the price for all the crimes that he

committed during his terrestrial life. When someone commits sin, he

must pay indemnity for it. ... Every time you pass there, your heart

will suffer. At that time, pray for him and offer him your comfort…

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… But, every time I went over there, the same tragedy was taking

place. When a group shouted until weariness, another took over and

repeated the same punishments. One day, I entered in the crowd and

I met a young woman. She was quite slender and beautiful. When I

asked her how she died, she turned around and told me not to speak

of it. Then I approached it with the heart that God inspired me with:

“How unjust you have been treated! How much you must have

suffered! I can understand your suffering heart.” It moved her. She

said that she was killed in the same way as Hitler is in the process of

being killed. What she meant is that she was stripped naked when she

was killed, and the soldiers came to look at her as much as they

wanted. She was in a gas chamber, and every time they wanted to

look at her, they opened the door and watched her. What inflicted her

a suffering of an indescribable atrocity. And finally, they sent the

poisoned gas that killed her.

The naked Hitler is the object of hardest punishments. Although he is

completely exhausted by these misfortunes, he is forced to endure

them continually. You, who are in the physical world, cannot

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imagine how much his suffering is atrocious. I met another person

with chained hands and feet. I tried to comfort him while saying:

“How much you must be suffering!” He answered: “This man had us

jailed and had us live at his whim. Therefore, we lived in captivity,

and because this tyrant considered our people as his enemy, we

could not survive. We cannot even imagine the degree of his cruelty.

*ow, it is our turn to avenge ourselves. If we accumulate all the

chains that bind us, and cover him with them, it will be a gigantic

tomb for him. I believe that our wish will finally be achieved one

day. We want to reduce him in a paste, and mix it with water and to

drink it; even then, we are not sure to pacify our melancholy.”

How can I describe completely with words this tragic scene? It is a

constant suffering and perpetual agony…

MUSSOLINI

There are a lot of things people need to really lead their lives. Food,

shelter and clothing are especially essential. As for Mussolini

weapons were the most important things in a person's life. He was

absolutely convinced that a person with a warehouse of weapons

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could invade all countries around him. The most dramatic aspect of

his thought was that to kill was not a sin. He believed that people had

the right to eliminate those that opposed their desires, because it is

what happens in the animal world. I was curious to know this man's

life, his thoughts, as well as his life in the spiritual world.

Whereas Stalin's life can be described as a continual solitary life,

Mussolini’s one is absolute solitude. In this lonely life, he

perpetually changes places. He doesn't have a stationary dwelling,

and must wander from place to place like a gypsy. You may wonder

how I could meet Mussolini. Of course, while looking for him at

other people’s places, since he doesn't have a personal house.

A person that I interrogated answered: “That man over there doesn't

have a place to stay. He wanders from house to house. He could stay

with us if he wanted but soon he is going to leave.” I was curious to

know who he was and why he was leaving this kind of life.

One day, I followed this man while he was leaving, hoping to

discover his identity. I followed him secretly. He stopped to three or

four places, but didn't have a serious conversation with someone. on

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the contrary, he just exchanged some words and immediately left.

Then one day, Lee Sang Hun caught him and shouted: “Brother!

Let's have a little chat.” He was very surprised and asked who I was.

I told to him that if he didn't have a house, we could go to my place

where we will not be disturbed, and where we would talk,

accompanied by a soft and marvelous music. But, he answered that

to wander from place to place corresponded better to his character,

and that he didn't want to settle somewhere. Then I asked him if at

least we could be friends. He wanted to know who I was. I told him

that me too, I didn't have a permanent house, that I had a place where

to stay but that was not comfortable, what also pushed me to wander.

I suggested to him that we walk together as friends, to attenuate our

solitude. He nodded in a gesture of confusion. I nevertheless decided

to follow him in order to know him better.

I don't know how many days went by. He asked me what I did in the

physical world. I told to him that I was first a specialist of internal

medicine. I interrogated him on what he also did. Then he began to

open up:

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“I was the head of a country. I had a lot interest in international

affairs. My ambition went growing. Soon, I had the ambition of

becoming a world leader and I concentrated all the economy of my

country in building a military arsenal. What I am today is the result

of the thirst for power that I had on earth. My name is Mussolini. I

am a monstrous criminal. Because I am a criminal, everywhere

where I go I am afraid that someone may recognize me. This is why I

am always hiding. *ow my heart is at ease after I have shared with

you. Why were you following me?” My answer was the following: “I

hoped to find you. Would you like to hear my lecture?”

He said that he was ready to listen to me, but had fear that if he

remains a long time somewhere, he would be recognized. “If it

occurs,” he said, “not only will I be pursued, but I will also be

cursed.” My reflection was the following: “If someone commits a

crime, then it is natural that he is punished. Thus, I think that a

person must recognize her sins, confess them and promise not to

repeat them anymore. Every mistake deserves a punishment. He

doesn't serve any good to want to flee perpetually instead of facing

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his conscience and to ask for the forgiveness of his sins.” But the

mistakes of Mussolini were so serious that he didn't dare to show

himself in the spiritual world.

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 Epilogue
Our life on earth is a precious growing opportunity. All of us, in

living, are preparing to die. Some know that it will be soon, others

will have many more years to prepare, and there will be those who

die far sooner than they expect. It is a fact of life that everyone will

pass on and none of us knows exactly when. Many will not be given

an opportunity to prepare to make their passing a new celebration of

life.

The purpose of this booklet is to educate people about the next life in

order to provide guidelines for a more meaningful life on earth, offer

enlightenment and comfort, and dispel the fear of death and the next

life.

This booklet is written as a tribute to my friend Linna who was

mentioned in the introduction. At this point I would like to recount

Linna's final hours.

***

It was summer and a warm August breeze blew through the open

window by Linna's bedside. From the window, she could see the

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countryside, familiar since her childhood: there was the yard she had

played in, the trees she had climbed. She had gone home to say good-

bye to this life. Linna's husband and children, and other family and

friends, kept vigil seeking to bring every comfort and love to her

final hours, as they sought the right moment to say good-bye.

On numerous occasions during those final days, Linna spoke with

fading strength, "I feel the presence of people from the other side

around me. They are talking; there is a flurry of activity and

excitement. They are waiting for me."

At another point Linna looked up and smiled. Her breathing was

labored and irregular. “Don't you hear the beautiful music?” she

asked. Then as night fell, she closed her eyes and took her last

irregular breath. Her frail body was no longer host to her lively and

witty spirit.

But we all know she lived on in the loving embrace of those who had

been waiting to receive her. Several days later, her pastor spoke the

following words at her funeral service:

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“... A funeral is in one way comparable to the celebration of a

wedding; it is entering into a new life. It is seemingly a paradox that

life imparts to us. On the one hand, we seek joy; and yet, on the

other hand, our lives are filled with moments of sad good-byes.

When parents send a son or daughter off to college, they are filled

with a sense of pride and fulfillment, joy and hopes for the future.

Yet, somewhere lingers the sadness of good-bye, and with that

sadness, remain memories of past times when their children were

young; when the home, Mommy and Daddy, were the only world

they knew.

The same is true of the wedding day; the father says good-bye to the

daughter who for all her life was only his. In one moment, joy and

sorrow encounter in one heart.

Our lives are filled with such moments, for God is teaching us

always to temper our sorrows with the knowledge that a greater

good and higher destiny is being fulfilled. The parents who sent a

child to college with a smiling face and a joyous, happy mind may

later quietly shed a tear; but that sorrow passes and is consumed in

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the sense of satisfaction and accomplishment. They remember that,

after all, it is this moment for which they sacrificed their lives.

Likewise for the father whose daughter becomes a wife and a

mother; his momentary sorrow is washed away in the new dimension

of his life as a grandfather.

All of those moments are but practice for this moment. God is

teaching us to go forward, trusting that a higher destiny, a greater

good is being fulfilled. To give us that insight is one of the more

important roles of faith.

Today we are sending Linna away to the ultimate college, and as we

watch her go, we can be filled with a sense of joy for her

accomplishment and hope for all that she will achieve there. Today,

we give Linna away to the ultimate of bridegrooms. We watch her

walk down the aisle of heaven with her beloved, and know that in

this moment, she is consumed with an immeasurable joy. Let the

knowledge that a better life has come for Linna temper our pain and

properly position our sorrow as a secondary, temporary condition.

Let our sorrow be washed away by the faith that in freely giving her,

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Linna will, one day, be returned to us in unimaginable splendor,

when we join her there.”

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 Suggested Reading
Borgia, Anthony: Life in the World Unseen. London: Psychic Press

Ltd., 1988.

__________: More About Life in the World Unseen. London:

Psychic Press Ltd., 1988.

_____________: Here and Hereafter. London: Psychic Press Ltd.,

1988.

Callanan, Maggie, and Patricia Kelley: Final Gifts. New York:

Bantam Books, 1993.

Divine Principle: New York: HSA-UWC, 1973.

Eadie, Betty J: Embraced by the Light. Placerville, California: Gold

Leaf Press, 1992.

Fiore, Edith: The Unquiet Dead. New York: Ballantine Books, 1987.

Franchezzo: A Wanderer in the Spirit Lands. West Grove,

Pennsylvania: AIM Publishers, Inc., 1993.

Gladish, David F: Love in Marriage, a translation of Emanuel

Swedenborg's The Sensible Joy in Married Love and The Foolish

Pleasures of Illicit Love. New York: Swedenborg Foundation, 1992.

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KŸbler-Ross, Elisabeth: On Death and Dying. New York Macmillan,

1969.

____________: Death: The Final Stage of Growth. Englewood

Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1975.

Martin, Joel, and Patricia Romanowski: We Don't Die: George

Anderson's Conversations With the Other Side. New York: Putnam,

1988; Berkley, 1989.

_____________: We Are Not Forgotten: George Anderson's

Messages of Love and Hope from the Other Side. New York:

Putnam, 1990; Berkley 1991.

_____________: Our Children Forever: George Anderson's

Messages from Children from the Other Side. New York: Berkley,

1994.

Moody, Raymond: Life After Life. Atlanta: Mockingbird Books,

1975.

_____________: Reflections on Life After Life. Atlanta:

Mockingbird Books, 1977.

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Moody, Raymond, with Paul Perry: Reunions Visionary Encounters

With Departed Loved Ones. New York: Villard Books, 1993.

Swedenborg, Emanuel: Heaven and its Wonders and Hell. First

published, London, 1758; reprinted, New York: Swedenborg

Foundation, 1967.

Swedenborg, Emanuel: Arcana Coelestia. First published, London,

1749; reprinted, New York: Swedenborg Foundation, 1978.

Wickland, Carl A: Thirty Years Among the Dead. Van Nuys,

California: Newcastle Publishing Co., Inc., 1974

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Modern society does not honor death anymore as one of the normal stages of life. This
booklet of fifty-six questions and answers tries to respond to a need and to dissipate
ungrounded fears. It shows how we can prepare ourselves to make that ultimate mysterious
journey in a natural and most significant way.

To understand what happens to us at death, we first need to understand of what we are

made. Most of us tend to identify closely with our physical bodies, but this is only part of the
picture. We are not only physical matter, but also spiritual essence. It is accurate to say that
we are essentially spiritual beings who possess physical bodies. When we die, we in effect
take off our physical bodies as one might take off an overcoat. The essential person
remains.

If we had to go in a foreign country, we will take more time to prepare well this trip. In
comparison, most of us do not take enough time to prepare for that ultimate journey that all
of us - without exception - must make one of these days: the trip beyond the sensual world,
that we call death.

Nora Spurgin is a graduate of the Faculty of Social Welfare of the University of New York.
She worked as social worker in psychic, studied and practiced psychodrama and
hypnotherapy. She has a private clinic. She has written many papers and given national and
international lectures on family life problems and emotional healing.

Rev. Jean Augustin Ghomsi has a Master Degree in Religious Education from the
Unification Theological Seminary, University of the State of New York and a Bachelor
Degree in Economics (Business Management) from the University of Yaounde, Cameroon.

He has written many papers on different subjects from religion, economy, ethics and
morality and philosophy. He is now working on a book on the Theory of Reincarnation.
Rev. Ghomsi has also given intensively, for more than ten years, seminars on youth and
sexuality, character education and lifeskills, family values, leadership and good governance,
interreligious dialogue, peace and conflict resolution, etc.
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Rev. Ghomsi is married with three children.