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

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" Almost always that of indifference; as something about which he no longer cares."
310. After a time, does a spirit recognise the mortal remains, or other objects, that once
belonged to him?
"Sometimes he does so; but this depends on the more or less elevated point of view from
which he regards terrestrial things."
311. Is a spirit's attention attracted to the material relics of himself by the respect entertained
for those objects by his survivors, and does he see this respect with pleasure?
"A spirit is always gratified at being held in kindly remembrance by those he has left. The
objects thus preserved in remembrance of him serve to recall him to the memory of those by
whom they are preserved; but it is the action of their thought which attracts him, and not
those objects."
312. Do spirits retain the remembrance of the sufferings endured by them in their last
corporeal existence?
"They frequently do so; and this remembrance makes them realise all the more vividly the
worth of the felicity they enjoy as spirits."
313. Does he who has been happy down here regret his terrestrial enjoyments on quitting the
earth?
"Only spirits of inferior degree can regret material satisfactions in harmony with impurity of
nature, and which are expiated by suffering. For spirits of higher degrees of elevation, the
happiness of eternity is immeasurably preferable to the ephemeral pleasures of the earthly
life."
As the adult despises watch constituted the delights of is infancy.
314. When a man, who has commenced a series of important labours in view of some useful
end, has seen these labours interrupted by death, does he, in the other world, feel regret at
having had to leave them unfinished?
"No, because he sees that others are destined to complete them. On the contrary, he
endeavours to act upon the minds of other human beings, so as to lead them to carry on what
he had begun. His aim while upon the earth was to be useful to the human race: his aim is the
same in the spirit-world."
315. When a man has left behind him works of art or of literature, does he preserve for them
in the other life the interest he took in them while living upon the earth?