Do you acknowledge your mistakes?

You may imagine my surprise and mortification on awakening from my stupor of death and coming to the consciousness that I had been deprived of all my earthly goods. It was stupefying and plunged me in a state of despondency and distress, which I cannot very well relate.

The moment I became aware that I had emerged from the chrysalis state of life to one of fuller expression of thought and feeling, I began to seek for the causes that had robbed me of my money and position. It was a weird domain of spiritual misery and produced a sense of miserable and utter loneliness!

No human being in sight to remind me of my relationship to and necessity for other human beings—a necessity, which I now began to feel.

I seemed to be an exile from all that I had ever known or felt. This state of my mind was one of intense agony. I was alone!

An awful sense of oppression, solitude and dreariness! I lived again my earth life. I saw that the man of means is but a steward whose duty it is to aid and comfort those who need his assistance.

How grossly I had misappreciated and perverted the riches put into my hands for a noble and just purpose. I had shut out completely the sunshine of spiritual life.

It is almost impossible to shut out the meaning of the forms and surroundings present with each spirit.

Spirits outwardly appear as they inwardly feel and think.

You suffer, but for a purpose and in strict conformity with the eternal laws of life. Simply cause and effect.

Do you acknowledge the errors and mistakes of the past?

No merely verbal confession this, but one made under the influence and illumination, which lighted up the past and showed its fallacies and evil results, and then also flashed upon the consciousness the true relation of man to man. 

Send forth an appeal for aid and sympathy and spiritual helpers are sent to give you aid and comfort and bear you company for a time until you are strong enough to stand alone. Do as your inward thoughts and feelings at this moment prompt you!

Appeal humbly for light, strength and support, for a guiding hand to save you from your own inherent tendencies with a full acknowledgment of your dependence upon a supreme ruling power and the dependence of human beings upon each other for aid and assistance.

You awaken fresh and full of an ambitious desire to remodel your life and be about some labour that would be productive of happiness to others. You feel the line of action you are to pursue—the duties you owe.

A lack of interest in the pecuniary affairs of others, a selfish grasping for all within reach and a subjection of the spiritual element in your life to the grosser, and an absorbing desire for material abundance is a curse! This is both compulsory and voluntary—a labour of love and a work of necessity. It is that in which all spirits must engage to improve and render lasting and permanent their own growth and happiness. 

Those who have lived on earth without rendering to the world the necessary amount of good, which is incumbent on every individual must of necessity return and make good this evil.