Editing Last Judgment (section)

===Esoteric Christian traditions===
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{{see also|Second Coming#Esoteric Christian teachings|Esoteric Christianity}}
Although the Last Judgment is believed by a great part of Christian mainstream churches; some members of [[Esoteric Christianity|Esoteric Christian]] traditions like the [[Rosicrucian]]s, the [[Spiritualism (religious movement)|Spiritualist movement]], and some [[Liberal theism|liberals]] instead believe in a form of [[universalism|universal]] [[salvation]].{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}

[[Max Heindel]], a Danish-American astrologer and mystic, taught that when the [[Second Coming of Christ|Day of Christ]] comes, marking the end of the current fifth or Aryan epoch, the human race will have to pass a final examination or last judgment, where, as in the ''Days of Noah'',<ref>{{Cite web |title=Teachings of an Initiate, by Max Heindel, Chapters I through IX |url=https://www.rosicrucian.com/tin/tineng01.htm |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=www.rosicrucian.com}}</ref> the chosen ones or pioneers, the ''sheep'', will be separated from the ''goats'' or stragglers,<ref>Cf. {{Bibleverse|Matthew|25:31–35}}</ref> by being carried forward into the next evolutionary period, inheriting the [[etheric plane|ethereal]] conditions of the [[New Galilee (Sixth Epoch)|New Galilee]] in the making. Nevertheless, it is emphasized that all beings of the human [[spiritual evolution|evolution]] will ultimately be saved in a distant future as they acquire a superior grade of [[consciousness]] and [[altruism]]. At the present period, the process of human evolution is conducted by means of successive [[reincarnation|rebirths]] in the physical world<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Rosicrucian Christianity Lectures, Lectures 1–3 |url=https://www.rosicrucian.com/rcl/rcleng01.htm |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=www.rosicrucian.com}}</ref> and the salvation is seen as being mentioned in [[Revelation 3]]:12 ([[KJV]]), which states "Him that overcometh will I make a ''pillar'' in the temple of my God and ''he shall go no more out''". However, this western esoteric tradition states – like those who have had a [[near-death experience]] – that after the [[death]] of the physical body, at the end of each physical lifetime and after the [[life review]] period (which occurs before the [[silver cord]] is broken), a judgment occurs, more akin to a Final Review or End Report over one's [[life]], where the life of the subject is fully evaluated and scrutinized.<ref>Max Heindel, [http://www.rosicrucian.com/zineen/death5.htm Death and Life in Purgatory] –  [http://www.rosicrucian.com/zineen/death6.htm Life and Activity in Heaven]</ref> This judgment is seen as being mentioned in [[Hebrews 9]]:27, which states that "it is appointed unto men once to die, but ''after this the judgment''".