When a man arrives after death in the spiritual world, which generally happens on the third day after he has breathed his last, he seems to himself to be alive as he was in the world, living in a similar house, room and bedroom, with similar dress and clothes, and with similar companions at home. If he was a king or a prince, in a similar court; if a farm labourer, in a similar cottage; the one in countrified, the other in magnificent surroundings. The reason this happens to every person after death is so that death should not seem like death but a continuation of life, and so that the last act of natural life should become the first of spiritual life; and from this he should advance towards his goal, which may be either in heaven or in hell.