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according to its merits as determined by its awakened conscience. Or, stating it in another way, the conscience "strikes an average" for it, which average, likewise, agrees in detail with the prevailing belief of the soul.

Those who in earth-life have deliberately brought themselves to the conviction that there is no "hereafter" for the soul, have a peculiar experience. They meet with their kind on a plane in which they imagine that they have been transplanted to another planet and are still in the flesh. And there they are made participants in a great drama of Karma, being made to suffer for the miseries which they have wrought upon others, and to enjoy blessings which they have bestowed upon others. They are not punished for the unbelief --- that would be unthinkable injustice --- but they learn the lesson of right and wrong in their own way. This experience, likewise, is purely mental, and arises merely from the expression in Astral manifestation of the memories of their earth-life, urged on by the awakened conscience which gives them "an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth," with a vengeance.

Belief or disbelief in a future state, does