How did moral behavior in life affect a person’s condition after death according to Spiritualist beliefs?

According to Spiritualist beliefs, a person’s condition after death is directly linked to the moral quality of their life on Earth. A core tenet of the movement is that individuals survive the death of their physical bodies by ascending into a spirit existence, where their state is determined by how they lived their human life.1

While Spiritualism emphasizes this moral connection to the afterlife, it is distinct from traditions that focus on reincarnation as a cycle governed by karma, such as those found in Hinduism. In contrast to the Spiritist tradition—which posits that souls reside in the spirit world before eventually being reincarnated—Spiritualism centers on the belief that individuals survive death to enter a spirit existence, offering hope of immortality to those who may have lost faith in traditional religious frameworks.213