p. 202.
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When a spirit has reached the end of the term assigned by Providence to his errant life, he chooses for himself the trials which he determines to undergo in order to hasten his progress - that is to say, the kind of existence which he believes will be most likely to furnish him with the means of advancing and the trials of this new existence always correspond to the faults which he has to expiate. If he triumphs in this new struggle, he rises in grade; if he succumbs, he has to try again.

— Allan Kardec

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "When a spirit has reached the end of the term assigned by Providence to his errant life, he chooses for himself the trials which he determines to undergo in order to hasten his progress - that is to say, the kind of existence which he believes will be most likely to furnish him with the means of advancing and the trials of this new existence always correspond to the faults which he has to expiate. If he triumphs in this new struggle, he rises in grade; if he succumbs, he has to try again." in the context of "p. 202." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Allan Kardec

About Allan Kardec

Allan Kardec is the pen name of the French teacher and educator Hippolyte LΓ©on Denizard Rivail (3 October 1804 – 31 March 1869). He is known today as the systematizer of Spiritism for which he laid the foundation with the five books of the Spiritist Codification.