ABC of Spiritualism 86 & 87/100
86. Does Spiritualism recognize rewards and punishments in the life after death?
Yes, but natural rewards and punishments of the same kind as here. It does not find any arbitrary rewards and punishments there any more than here. All rewards and punishments in all the realms of God’s great kingdom, are found in the outworking of nature’s laws. They are not either favoritism on the one hand, nor vengeance on the other. Man sins and suffers here, or obeys the law and reaps reward. And as below, so above. No man escapes punishment, no man misses due reward. The idea of an atoning sacrifice for sins which will remove their natural consequences (pardon) is simply ludicrous to the inhabitants of the spirit spheres.
87. Is there according to Spiritualistic teaching any restraint on the liberty or conduct of men after death?
No, except the moral restraint which is no doubt more forcible there than here. Men have their choice of locality within the sphere for which their condition destines them at death. They make their own associations. They choose their own lines of work or engagement. They find many paths to knowledge and many calls upon their energies and in all communications they represent their lives as full of labor and interest.