Is a soul ever left comfortless?

There are heavens—

I myself can vouch for the little heaven of beauty, tranquillity and loving service, which it has been my happy lot to contact here. But there are spheres of unimaginable joy and beauty beyond, building up and extending out of every state of development—right on to the spiritual worlds of divine thought, far beyond any conception you and I can have of them.

Such is the progress of the soul towards these spheres of perfection, and it is assuring to realise that we have all eternity in which to journey onwards and upwards.

But there are also hells, though certainly differing from the physical hells and everlasting fiery torments of man's warped imagination. There are hells of the spirit and the mind, confining states of misery―dark, depressing, and as real as the tortured consciousness of the dweller therein makes them.

Yet these hells are not eternal.

The spirit in these mental torments need stay there no longer than his desires keep him. He is free to resist the hatreds, cruelties and lusts of his lower nature, which he has retained from his earth life, and which are keeping him in dark dungeons amid like-minded inhabitants. He can always choose to follow the light of love, forgiveness and harmony, and always there are souls ready to help, guide, comfort and assist.

No soul is ever left comfortless unless he wishes it.

That sounds like a paradox, but then much that we learn here is very different from the teachings of man, even good men who are limited in their ideas. 

Existence on earth is a state of living in a thought world—illusory, much restricted, and enclosed by the glamorous web of matter. 

Beyond physical death, the thought-world is more apparent and certainly far more potent in its effects. 

Cause and effect is still the law on this plane of astral matter as it is on earth. 

I understand that only as the soul proceeds onward in its progress into higher realms can this law be superseded, and then other, and higher laws must be obeyed.

—Sister Frances Banks in Spirit