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

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292. Do spirits experience hatreds among themselves?
"Hatreds only exist among impure spirits. It is they who sow hatreds and dissensions among
men."
293. Do those who have been enemies on earth always retain their resentment against one
another in the spirit-world?
"No; for they often see that their hatred was stupid, and perceive the puerility of the object by
which it was excited. It is only imperfect spirits who retain the animosities of the earthly life 7
of which they rid themselves in proportion as they become purified. Spirits whose anger, as
men, has been caused by some merely material interest, forget their dissension as soon as they
are dematerialised. The cause of their dissension no longer existing, they may, if there be no
antipathy between them, see each other again with pleasure."
Just as two schoolboys, when they have reached the age of reason, perceive the folly of their boyish
quarrels, and no longer keep up a grudge against each other on account of them.
294. Is the remembrance of wrongs they may have done one another, as men, an obstacle to
sympathy between two spirits?
"Yes, it tends to keep them apart."
295. What is the sentiment, after death, of those whom we have wronged?
"If they are good, they forgive you as soon as you repent; if they are bad, they may retain
resentment against you, and may even pursue you with their anger in another existence. This
may be permitted by God as a chastisement."
296. Are the individual affections of spirits susceptible of change?
No; for they cannot be mistaken in one another. The mask under which hypocrites hide
themselves on earth has no existence in the world of spirits, and their affections, when they
are pure, are therefore unchangeable. The love which unites them is a source of supreme
felicity."
297. Does the affection which two spirits have felt for each other upon the earth always
continue in the spirit-world?
"Yes, undoubtedly, if that affection were founded on sympathy; but, if physical causes have
had more share in it than sympathy, it ceases with those causes. Affections are more solid and
lasting among spirits than among men, because they are not subordinated to the caprices of
material interests and self-love."