In our explanation concerning the sub-conscious memory we noted
that a record of every act, thought and word is transmitted by air and ether into our lungs,
thence to the blood, and finally inscribed upon the tablet of the heart:—a certain little
seedatom, which is
thus the book of Recording Angels. It was later explained how this panorama of life is
etched into the desire body and forms the basis of retribution after death. When we have
committed a wrong and our conscience accuses us in consequence, and this accusation is
productive of sincere repentance accompanied by reform, the picture of that wrong act will
gradually fade from the record of our life, so that when we pass out at death it will not
stand accusingly against us. We noted that the panorama of life unwinds backwards just after
death. Later, in the purgatorial[pg 170]life it again passes before the spiritual vision of the man, who then
experiences the exact feeling of those whom he has wronged. He seems to lose his own
identity for the time being, and assumes the condition of his one time victim, he
experiences all the mental and physical suffering himself which he inflicted upon others.
Thus he learns to be merciful instead of cruel, and to do right instead of wrong in a future
life. But if he awakens to a thorough realization of a wrong previous to his death, then, as
said, the feeling of sorrow for his victim and the restitution or redress which he gives of
his own free will, make the suffering after death unnecessary, hence—“his sin is forgiven.”
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