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EOSICKUCIAN PHILOSOPHY
act we commit is an act of free will. But temptations are
placed before us in order to ascertain whether the purging
has been sufficient to teach us the needed lessons, and it is
our privilege either to yield or to stand strong and firm
for the good.
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When the- spirit parses out of the body at
death, the parroramarof its past life passes before it during
the first three -and one-half days after its release from
the body. These pictures are etched into the desire body
and form the basis of life in Purgatory and the First
Heaven, which are located in "the Desire World. ;i!ne past
life is reproduced in pictures shifting backward so that
the scenes which happened just previous to death are first
gone over; then follows the life toward childhood and
infancy. In Purgatory only the scenes where the soul did
wrong are reenacted, and the soul sees itself as being the
one whom it wronged and suffers as those suffered whom
it wronged in earth life. The record of these sufferings
is indelibly engraven upon the seed atom, which is the only
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