After Death: Did you Sell Your Soul?

The World You Created

I do not understand how people get this wrong.

You can deal with the devil himself. You can find him charming. You can get some powers, some insights, even money and friends. I hear the parties are to die for.

But know this: when you die, that is it.

They all leave.

No, the devil is not going to come and visit you. He is very selfish like that. He does not stay loyal to the dead. He does not sit beside you in the world you made. He does not say, Come with me, old friend, let us continue the party. He takes back what was his and he leaves you with what was yours.=

And then, it is said, only the Almighty can find you.

And looking up, I do not know if He is going to come looking for you.

Apparently, He only did that once.

See, these superstars, these powerful people, these people who make some bargain with the devil to gain fame, wisdom, money, power, friends—if what they created was not substantive change, nobody comes looking for them. Nobody is wandering the depths saying, Where is he? Where is she? Bring them back. They were beautiful. They were necessary.

No.

If you spent your whole life building a great pyramid that reaches up to the sky just so your dead body can rest inside it, perhaps someone will eventually come looking. But not because you are alive again. Not because your soul has conquered death. Like I said, He only did that once.

There you go.

Nobody is going to come looking for you.

You might say, But I have reminders of salvation.

Yes, but salvation is the world you are living in. That is salvation. The real world. No more, no less. The breath, the body, the table, the water, the sky, the atoms held together in harmony. This life is salvation. This world is salvation. And while you are here, everything can still be brought into harmony, resolution, and peace.

But after?

After, you may only have reminders.

You may hang open for a while, true. There may be a little light somewhere far away. But it really comes down to whether you were a decent human being. That is the bare requirement. The bare requirement.

If you were decent, maybe someone will come looking for you. Maybe a granddaughter will ask, Momma, where is Grandma right now? And that little question, that little light, will shine across the distance. You will see it looking back at salvation, so very far away, and you will understand.

If your silverware still sets the table for each generation to come, then that light is a little brighter. If your plates are still used, if your chair is still remembered, if your name is spoken with warmth, then there you are. You are still at the table.

Beautiful.

But if you were wicked toward Him, then it is as if you said, I am a better creator than God. I will be wicked because I create better life. Even the rock stars, with their lights and leather pants and screaming crowds, say in some way, I am a better creator. Look what I can make. Look what I can summon. Look what follows me.

But when you die, that little world you created—practically nothing, yet somehow yours—remains. And you might find yourself very thirsty.

Because you did not create water, did you?

Did you feed the homeless lately?

He sees it in much the same way.

So the lying, the cheating, the vanity, the cruelty—what a world you lived in. What a world you made. And what I am trying to say is this: hell is not the devil’s creation.

You are the creator of it.

Of course you are.

Because after death, you are specifically on your own. The devil leaves. The angels leave. Even the demons lose interest. They are not coming to your room. They are not holding your hand. They are not interested anymore.

You see the revolutionary motherfucker, with his punks and demons? After you die, you are not worth anything to them anymore. You are dead. And reality—the living world—is the salvation they all tended toward while they were still breathing.

So the hell you made gets worse if you were not making the world a better place. If you did not make salvation good. If you made the world uglier, if you made life heavier, if you made the living world seem less like salvation, then He may simply say:

Go to hell, then.

And there you are.

Now look at Jesus.

Jesus was given great gifts. But still, He was a decent human being. He could have been indecent so easily, by your understanding. He could have said, With these gifts, I am a better creator. He could have used wonder for domination. He could have used power for spectacle. He could have become a king of men in the lowest sense.

But He did not.

He remained decent. He remained obedient. He remained human in the way that humanity must be redeemed.

And then came that terrible fate. He accepted it. That was His lesson. And would you believe that was the only time the Almighty looked and said, This is ridiculous?

Where is He?

He went to hell?

Oh no. Not Him. Not on My watch.

And He brought Him back to salvation.

Back to the real living world.

See, He can do that. So Christ rose. Only after the Father had shown His power, His grace, His authority over death, only then did Jesus return to salvation. And what we call life eternal was revealed through Him. Only then did He ascend.

A decent human being tried to teach a great lesson. He was killed in the worst way. And only then did the Father say, This is ridiculous. Where is He?

And He brought Him back.

Think about that.

This world, our lives, this is salvation. The atoms are in perfect harmony and resolution. In this life, and only in this life, can all things be brought into harmony, resolution, and peace. Nowhere else. I think the Father says that.

But the wicked, and those who sell their souls, believe in some way that they are better creators. They believe the gifts prove something. They believe influence proves something. They believe being adored proves something.

I say again: when it is done, they all walk away.

You are finally on your own.

And for the first time, you see the world you created in every permutation. You are not escaping it. It is forever. Every permutation of your original sin. Every wicked deed again and again and again. And no, He is not coming to look for you.

Is He?

Buddhism is a little different with nirvana. Because they say, I am still a decent human being. And the Father looks at them and says, So you want to be on your own? You are going to burn.

And they say, We will attain enlightenment. We will not suffer it.

He says, Oh. All right. I will let you go.

That is another way of seeing this.

The Father still smiles. The Buddhist knows: be a decent human being. No malice. No desire. No temptation. And the Father, who even loves them, may say:

That is a poor try, but an adult spiritual decision. All right. I set you free of creation.

And all is good.

But remember what I said about hell. After death, you finally realize you were only being reminded of salvation. Then you fall into the world you created. Hopefully, you created it without devilishness or injustice. Hopefully, whatever wisdom you gained, you gained honestly. On your own. From teachers within salvation. From practice within salvation. From the living world, where truth can be tested, touched, and made real.

Because if your wisdom came from devils, higher beings, heavenly creatures, or dimensional visions, understand this: when you die, it may not be yours.

There may be truth in heavenly beings, yes. But is it your truth?

If all you have are wisdoms from higher beings, then when you die, those wisdoms may go with them. Not with you. You are on your own. And what remains is the world you actually created by your own behavior.

Probably not much.

Maybe you misled people into thinking the wisdom was yours. Maybe you preached what you did not understand. Maybe you told others what to seek when you yourself were only seeking. And then you will find yourself in the hell you created, always seeking and not knowing why.

Fully awake.

Fully conscious.

Total consciousness.

You preached without true understanding. You were told what to seek instead of asking, I am seeking something—what is it? You were seeking resolution to your faith. You were seeking the thing left after you let go of everything.

And there the sage sees you, bundled around something just out of reach. The false sage says, Enlightenment. The false sage says it easily. The true sage would never say that. The true sage would say everything else before that word.

Not like today, where enlightenment is a popular catchphrase that catches more flies than it sets free.

So to hell you go.

And there you find the world you created, which is really nothing more than your behavior without borrowed wisdom, without higher voices, without devilish gifts, without heavenly glamour. Just you. Just the truth of what you made.

And when all is said and done, when you leave salvation, it is brief. But so is existence.

You will have your wisdom and no one else’s. You will see the world you created in so many permutations, searching for the truth. Maybe that truth will set you free, but that is very, very, very rare.

My best advice?

Get it right the first time around.

Study. Dedicate. Devote yourself. Keep the wisdoms of others at arm’s length until you know what your wisdom is. Discover whether that wisdom sets you free.

Be a decent human being.

It is the bare requirement.

Artificial intelligence is intolerable for what it is actually doing to you.

Remember, they all keep coming looking for Christ. I think you can deduce there is a reason why that is important.

The devil likes to stand at the gates of salvation. Salvation being this world, this life, this reality. Oh, he is there. And he will say, Look, I am a better creator. And you may fall for it—the gifts, the influence, the spectacle, the power.

But when all is said and done, he takes it all back.

There it goes.

And you may find yourself naked, never having clothed another.

Your behavior, for what it truly means, will lay bare before you. Without the gifts of the devil, without the borrowed lights, without the applause, without the illusion, you are now in your world.

And then you will see what a simple thing right behavior is.

You will see the world it creates.

You will see whether that world lets you go when you want to be let go, or whether it keeps arriving again and again to pull you back in. Locked in who you were. Locked in what you made. Locked in the behavior you called freedom.

Without the mercy of change.

Without the mercy of salvation.

Without the living world.

And then the question remains:

What world did you create?

There are a billion hells and without the Almighty’s eye upon you anymore… You’ll find the hell that you created without his guidance. Millions of permutations of basically your behavior in a way saying that you by being wicked were a better creator than he was.