I found this passage comforting as it answered a question I’ve had about the afterlife.
Misc. Writings. p. 42
“After the change called death takes place, do we meet those gone before?–or does life continue in thought only as a dream?
“Man is not annihilated, nor does he lose his identity, by passing through the belief called death. After the momentary belief of dying passes from mortal mind, this mind is still in a conscious state of existence; and the individual has but passed through a moment of extreme mortal fear, to awaken with thoughts, and being, as material as before. Science and Health clearly states that spiritualization of thought is not attained by the death of the body, but by a conscious union with God. When we shall have passed the order called death, or destroyed this last enemy, and shall have come upon the same plane of conscious existence with those gone before, then we shall be able to communicate with and to recognize them.
If, before the change whereby we meet the dear departed, our life-work proves to have been well done, we shall not have to repeat it; but our joys and means of advancing will be proportionately increased.
The difference between a belief of material existence and the spiritual face of Life is, that the former is a dream and unreal, while the latter is real and eternal. Only as we understand God, and learn that good, not evil, lives and is immortal, that immortality exists only in spiritual perfection, shall we drop our false sense of Life in sine or sense material, and recognize a better state of existence.”
I’m so grateful to Mrs. Eddy for her teachings. She gives a great incentive to keep at it so we can graduate and not have to repeat the lessons. All about what side we are weighing in on the scale, Truth or Error.