Allan Kardec-THE Spirit's Book_ The Principles of Spiritist Doctrine (1989)

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CHAPTER III
RETURN FROM THE CORPOREAL TO THE SPIRIT LIFE
1. THE SOUL AFTER DEATH; ITS INDIVIDUALITY;
ETERNAL LIFE - 2. SEPARATION OF SOUL AND BODY
- 3. TEMPORARILY CONFUSED STATE OF THE SOUL
AFTER DEATH.
The Soul After Death
149. What becomes of the soul at the moment of death?'
"It becomes again a spirit; that is to say, it returns into the world of spirits, which it had
quitted for a short time."
150. Does the soul, after death, preserve its individuality?'
"Yes, it never loses its individuality. What would the soul be if it did not preserve it?"
- How does the soul preserve the consciousness of its individuality, since it no longer has its
material body?'
"It still has a fluid peculiar to itself, which it draws from the atmosphere of its planet, and
which represents the appearance of its last incarnation-its perispirit."
- Does the soul take nothing of this life away with it?
"Nothing but the remembrance of that life and the desire to go to a better world. This
remembrance is full of sweetness or of bitterness according to the use it has made of the
earthly life it has quitted. The more advanced is the degree of its purification, the more clearly
does it perceive the futility of all that it has left behind it upon the earth."
151. What is to be thought of the opinion that the soul after death returns to the universal
whole?
"Does not the mass of spirits, considered in its totality, constitute a whole? Does it not
constitute a world? When you are in an assembly you form an integral part of that assembly,
and yet you still retain your individuality."
152. What proof can we have of the individuality of the soul after death?