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

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989. There are persons who, without being Positively wicked, render all about them unhappy
by their ill-temper; what is, for them, the consequence of this?
"Such persons are assuredly not good, and they will expiate this wrong by the sight of those
whom they have rendered unhappy, which will be a constant reproach for them; and then, in
another existence, they will endure all that they have caused to be endured by others."
Expiation and Repentance
990. Does repentance take place in the corporeal state, or in the spiritual state?
"In the spiritual state; but it may also take place in the corporeal state, when you clearly
comprehend the difference between good and evil."
991. What is the consequence of repentance in the spiritual state?
"The desire for a new incarnation, in order to become purified. The spirit perceives the
imperfections which deprive him of happiness; and he therefore aspires after a new existence
in which he will be able to expiate his faults." (332, 975).
992. What is the consequence of repentance in the corporeal state?
"The spirit will advance even in his present life, if he have the time to repair his faults.
Whenever your conscience reproaches you, or shows you an imperfection, you may always
become better."
993. Are there not men who have only the instinct of evil, and are inaccessible to repentance?
"I have told you that progress must be incessant. He who, in his present life, has only the
instinct of evil, will have the instinct of goodness in another one, and it is to effect this end
that he is re-born many times. For all must advance, all must reach the goal; but some do this
more quickly, others more slowly, according to the energy of their desire. He who has only
the instinct of good is already purified, for he may have had that of evil in an anterior
existence." (804.)
994. Does the perverted spirit who has not recognised his faults during his life always
recognise them after his death?