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150. Does the soul, after death, preserve its individuality?
"Yes, it never loses its individuality. What would the soul be if it did not preserve it?"
-- How does the soul preserve the consciousness of its individuality, since it no longer has its material body?
"It still has a fluid peculiar to itself, which it draws from the atmosphere of its planet, and which represents the appearance of its last incarnation-its perispirit."
-- Does the soul take nothing of this life away with it?
"Nothing but the remembrance of that life and the desire to go to a better world. This remembrance is full of sweetness or of bitterness according to the use it has made of the earthly life it has quitted. The more advanced is the degree of its purification, the more clearly does it perceive the futility of all that it has left behind it upon the earth."