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 When these disclosures were made, he was sentenced to hell.

In a word, all evils, villanies, robhbries, artifices, deceits, are made manifest to every evil spirit, and are drawn forth from his own memory; and his guilt is established beyond a doubt. Nor is there any room for denial, because all the circumstances appear together.

The memory of a certain spirit was seen and examined by angels, and I heard what his thoughts had been for a month together day after day; and all without the least mistake, the particulars being recalled just as they were in his mind on those days.

From these examples it is evident that man carries all his memory with him into the other world; and that there is nothing, however concealed here, which is not made manifest hereafter in the presence of many; according to the Lord's words: "There is nothing hidden which shall not be revealed, and nothing secret which shall not be known. Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and what ye have spoken into the ear shall be proclaimed upon the housetops," Luke xii. 2, 3.

When a man's actions are disclosed to him after death, the angels to whom is assigned the duty of making inquisition, look into his face and extend their examination through the whole body, beginning with the fingers of each hand, and so proceeding through the whole. I was surprised at this, and the