From; VOICES FROM SPIRIT MAGAZINE Vol. 5 No. 5 Copyright February, 1992, By Spiritist Publications By The Polleys. All rights reserved.
A SPIRITIST SPEAKS ABOUT
THE SECOND DEATH
By; Speaker Gerald A. Polley
In The Teachings Of Spiritism there are some Truths that are very unpopular
because man would much rather believe his own imagination on the subject,
rather than the Truth. Perhaps the greatest of these is The Second Death.
Many individuals want to believe that no matter how badly they live their
lives, no matter how much they hurt others, there will never come for them
a time of Judgment, there will never be a reckoning. They can continue
to do their own thing throughout eternity. Unfortunately, for these individuals,
their passing from this world brings a sudden meeting with The Truth. They
find that every misery they have caused others is imprinted on their Soul,
every dark deed is marked in indullable ink "Debt to be paid," that their
prayers for forgiveness fell on deaf ears. All the pain, anguish, and sorrow
builds up inside them like steam inside a boiler until for some, the pressure
is too great, the pain too much to bear, and the very fabric of their Soul
shatters. Like an exploding skyrocket on the 4th of July the Soul, for
a brief moment, is a sparkling, brilliant light, but that light is soon
swallowed up by The Darkness.
Some sparks, the little good left inside the Soul, sometimes on rare occasions,
manages to burst through the Veil Of Tears, find a body in the material
world, and start evolution's journey all over again. But this is a rare
occurence.
In most cases the fate of a lost Soul is eternal nothingness. Any who
have seen the agony of a Soul before its final moment can testify to all
mankind of the agony it endures, its desperate struggle to continue to
be, its knowledge that because of its crimes against its fellow beings,
because of its ignorance, it has thrown away its eternity.
It is desperation beyond desperation, pain beyond pain, and they wish
to keep all who live from avoiding that terrible moment of loss.
Those who dwell in The Land Of The Beloved have sent many Teachers with
the same message; 'Love one another, live rightly. Do not hurt one another,
for when you hurt your brother or sister you hurt yourself, and the price
is too high to pay, for if too many souls are lost to the Darkness, life
itself, may cease to be. For the Spirit and the material world are intertwined,
one cannot live without the other. But man, in his ignorance, has preferred
to listen to those who teach hate, who bring greed, lust and selfishness,
who let them say certain prayers, make them think they are forgiven and
go on doing all the hurt and, causing all the misery they like.
But the time is at hand when we must make mankind understand these are
false teachings, that if they are to survive as a race, they must mend
their ways, or soon, VERY soon, the end may begin to come. All they love
may begin to die, and the world once called Earth, will be a wasteland
that others who have learned The Truth of existence, may claim from a race
that, in their ignorance, chose to die one Soul at a time, in lonely, dark
agony that no words in any language can describe. We must never, NEVER
let this be. It cannot be!