IV. The Spirit in Spiritland after Death

We must make ourselves familiar with the thought that in this region our judgments must be different from those in the physical life. For instance, if a man has acquired little that is related to this fifth region, the craving arises in him to imprint an impulse upon himself for the following life that will cause that life to run its course in such a way that in its destiny (karma) the corresponding effect of that deficiency will come to light. Experiences, which in the following earth life appear as a painful destiny, seen from that life—and perhaps deeply bewailed as such—are, nevertheless, the very experiences that a man in this region of spiritland finds absolutely necessary for himself.