How do you make compensation?

We think they go back to earth at times and try to undo their wrongs. They try to put good or fortunate impulses in place of evil and cruel ones, and sometimes succeed in bringing joy to those they have injured. We know that they will finally come into pure thought and kindly lives, and will shed their criminal desires, as an individual might shed an old garment.

We are not talking of heaven when we speak of criminals.

They are in the mental purgatories or spirit-hells the old writers imagined. There is no burning fire, and no eternal punishment, but their mental suffering and final atonement are very real.