Does life exist after death?

Those who stoutly maintained that after death there was no life, who were strong-willed men who, had they believed, might have done much good, who led many astray, who held this view so strongly that they self-hypnotised themselves into a state of coma. They lie here age after age, and while men whom the world considered far worse than they, who had sunk far lower in Hell have been able to see the error of their ways and progress, they remain unconscious and cannot learn.  

This is truly terrible―is there no way of waking them?

After long ages, the spell grows weak and great messengers of light come to them, who after much striving , do succeed in breaking through their sleep and rousing them.