Reconciled by the Light: the after-death letters from a teen suicide.

Spiritualism teaches that a human is a “triune being,” composed of physical body, soul, and spirit. We are more than just a person walking around on Earth for maybe 80 years; we are eternal beings, and a new life awaits us in the Spirit World when the physical body dies.

The realization that we are eternal naturally raises the question of purpose and meaning in life.

The most direct way to find the purpose of something is to ask the person who made it. For example, if we want to know the purpose of a watch, or a piece of software, we should ask the watchmaker, or the software engineer.

Spiritualism implies that the Law of Life can also be understood as the Law of Cause and Effect. We know that we did not cause ourselves; we are an effect. Then in order to understand our life’s purpose, we should ask God, the one who created us.

Spiritualism also tells us that life is based on the Love Principle of Nature. It says that the Law of Life, which is God’s Law, is the force that defines the relationship between the individual and God.

If the ultimate force behind the relationship between God and humans is love, then it would be logical to conclude that the ultimate purpose of each human being’s life centers around establishing a love relationship with God.

In my view, a good definition for our life in the physical world is – “The School of Love.” When we are born, we are little more than “human puppies.”  As we grow, our senses and consciousness develop more and more, and we eventually realize that the milk that sustains us comes from outside ourselves. It comes from someone we come to know as“Mama.”

This whole process of growing up with loving parents, and brothers and sisters, offers us the opportunity to receive love, recognize what it is, and begin to practice it on others. As we mature, if we enter into a marriage and have children, we arrive at a place that will give us the opportunity to grow our love further and deeper, learning to postpone our own gratification to meet the more immediate needs of others. Along with this life situation, we should naturally come to experience that the act of serving others brings with it its own reward in a wonderful feeling of fulfillment and deep emotional satisfaction. Naturally then, we would come to want to serve others more and more. As our hearts open, what is really unfolding is the spark of God that dwells at the core of our being.

This process causes us to develop our hearts even more, and is the perfect preparation for life in the Spirit World, in which we have found that the higher spirits spend their time in loving service to others.

In my view, this process will inevitably lead us to the experience of oneness in love with God, producing a complete feeling of peace, joy, deep meaning and fulfillment, which will last for eternity. This is our ultimate home and destination.