Learn, through understanding of Reality, to feel compassion for those who do not love their brothers and sisters as themselves, but mistake them for something other than Self.

Pity all con-merchants, swindlers, thieves, corrupt businessmen, corrupt politicians, corrupt tradespeople who cheat and overcharge. All those deluded beings who, like most of us, deny the God in Self and the God in others.

In the physical plane, justice aimed at reparation of the damage we have done to others should be our first concern. In the non-physical plane that we encounter at the 'death' of the body, reparation of the damage we have done to ourselves should also be our first concern. It is not always so in practice. There is absolutely no punishment involved. When we realise the inseparability of all aspects of God we will know that what we have done to others we have done to ourselves. That lesson must be thoroughly learned, and so, when we are ready and willing to take further steps toward God-realisation, we will choose to be on the receiving end of our won unlovingness. It is only through direct, personal and emotional experience that such lessons are learned. Intellectual knowledge alone is merely academic.

We never punished for our mistakes, but by them; for we are harming ourselves. When Yeshua bar Yosef (Jesus) taught that we should love our brothers and sisters as ourselves, he was not teaching morality, but reality.

As no one forces an individual to be on the receiving end of his of her own unlovingness, own unkindness, one's first reaction after 'death' is to simply refuse to take on such lessons in God-realisation, and so we begin to stagnate in whatever illusory state we find ourselves. That state - and there are many and diverse states - will be beautiful and pleasant, your companions will be like-minded and at the same level of development, and you may not feel inclined to move on in growth and development.

You will encounter advanced friends, guides and teachers who will encourage you to grow, but will then move on to pursue their own adventures in creation, leaving you to remain in a static, changeless state which gradually becomes deadeningly boring through lack of challenge, lack of Karma. Remember Karma translates as 'action'. The decision, the challenge, is always yours.

Eventually you will select the time, place, body and circumstances that you deem necessary for your development. You may do it with reluctance or with enthusiasm, but you will do it. Your prime and eternal purpose is to manifest personally, by example, the glory of God. This is known as loving in spirit.

Attacking, cheating, obstructing and causing sorrow to other aspects of God manifesting in the physical is not in your best interest. And though we transgress time after time, again and again, the beauty and the glory of God is that we are never unloved, never abandoned, never forgotten.