Do souls come back after death?

There is a sameness in such work that makes one example serve for many.

While Spirit Franchezzo worked to help others, he was gradually learning the lesson, which had proven hardest for him to learn―to forgive his enemies and to return good for evil.

It had been a hard struggle to overcome his desire for revenge―or wish that some punishment should overcome the one who had so deeply wronged him―it was hard to desire now to benefit that person.

Time and again, while he was working on the earth plane, he went and stood beside that one, unseen and unfelt, each time he perceived that his enemy’s thoughts were as bitter as his own. There was no love lost between them.

Standing there, Spirit Franchezzo saw the events of their lives blended together in one picture―the dark shadows of their passionate hate, dimming and blurring these pictures, as storm clouds sweep over a summer sky. And in the clearer light of his spiritual knowledge, he saw his faults.

From these visits, Spirit Franchezzo returned to his little cottage in the spirit world overwhelmed with bitter regrets and anger towards the one whose life seemed only to have been linked by sorrow and wrong to his own.

One day, while standing beside this individual, he became conscious of a new feeling, almost of pity, for this person was also oppressed in soul, also conscious of regret in thinking of their past, the first softening and melting of the hard wall of hatred between them.

Spirit Franchezzo was given a chance to assist and benefit this person and he was able to overcome his bitterness and take advantage of this opportunity.

His enemy was not conscious of his presence, nor of his interference for good, but felt in a dim fashion that somehow the hatred between them was dead, that as Spirit Franchezzo was dead, it were perhaps better to let their quarrels die also. Thus came at last a mutual pardon, which severed the links, which had so long bound their earthly lives together.

Spirit Franchezzo knew that when death severed the thread of that earthly life, their spirits would meet again so that each might ask pardon from the other. Not until then would all links be finally severed between them and each pass on to their appointed sphere.

The effects on the soul of your mutual love and hate are great and lasting, and they cling to you long after your earthly life is past.