"In "Immortality in the Light of Synechism" (1893, retitled "Immortality and Synechism" by the CP editors), Peirce says.
CP 7.576. Nor is this, by any means, all. A man is capable of a spiritual consciousness, which constitutes him one of the eternal verities, which is embodied in the universe as a whole. This as an archetypal idea can never fail; and in the world to come is destined to a special spiritual embodiment.CP 7.577 [....] In the same manner, when the carnal consciousness passes away in death, we shall at once perceive that we have had all along a lively spiritual consciousness which we have been confusing with something different.
But it's clear as all of you point out, that in 1906 (in CP 6.520-21), Peirce was much less sure about immortality."
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