Heavenly Doctrine (Tafel) n. 225

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225. After the death of the body, a man's spirit appears in the spiritual world in the human form, precisely as in the natural world. He also enjoys the faculty of sight, of hearing, of speaking, and of feeling, as he did in the world; and he is endowed with every faculty of thought, of will, and of action, as when he was in the world; in a word, he is a man as to each and all things, except that he is not encompassed with the gross body with which he was clothed in the world. This he leaves behind when he dies, never to resume it again.


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