Amulek is here making use of the word spirit to refer to one’s disposition, attitude, proclivity, spiritual direction. Men and women will not have an immediate reversal of attitude at the time of death.
If they have desired evil things; if they have sold their souls for attention and applause and acclaim; if they have craved carnal pleasures alone-if their lives have followed this course, they need not expect to inherit spirituality in the world to come. This is in harmony with what Alma will later call the doctrine of restoration (see Alma 41).
In the words of Jacob: “Wo unto all those who die in their sins; for they shall return to God, and behold his face, and remain in their sins” (2 Nephi 9:38).
In a positive vein, if a person leaves this life loving the Lord, questing for the Spirit, striving for truth and light, he will continue in that same direction in the world of spirits among persons of like disposition. He will go on to gain eternal life.