The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-04-05
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WHEELING. WEST VA. FRIDAY MORNING APRIL 5. 1861

some who Immediately after death are
cast into cayerns, and are thus sepa-
rated from those who are in the world
of spirits, and are taken out thence
and let in thither by turns; these are
they who, under civil pretenses, have
dealt wickedly with the neighbor. But
the latter and the former are few in
the world of spirits, and therein ac-
cording TO divine order are prepared
for heaven or for hell.
As to what concerns the first state,
which Is the state of the exteriors, man
comes into that Immediately after
death. Every man as to his spirit has
exteriors and interiors. The exteriors
OF the spirit are those whereby he &C.
commodities his body in the world, es-
pecially his face, speech, and gestures,
to consolation with others; put the
interiors of the spirit are those which
belong to his proper will and conse-
quent thought, which are rarely mani
Tested in the face, the speech, and the
manner For man Is accustomed fro IN
infancy to assume the appearance OF
friendship, of benevoleuce, and of sim
cerity, and to conceal the thoughts oi
his own proper will; hence from habit
he assumes a moral and civil life in
externals, whatever he may be in in
ternals. In consequence of this habit,
man scarcely knows what his inter-
mails are, nor does he pay any attention
to them. -,
The first state of man after death is
similar to his STATEN the world, because
then in like manner he is in externals.
he has also a similar face, similar
speech, and a similar mind (dilinusl
thus a. similar moral and civil life. In
consequence of this, he is not aware
but that he is still in the world, unless
hn aGiunrta fhnRn fhfnor0 NuhfRh
sent themselves, and to those which
were said to him by the angels when he
raised up. that he is now spirit. Thus
one life is continued into the other, and
death is only the passage from the nat
ural to the spiritual world.)
Because the spirit of man recently
departed from this world is such, there
fore, he is then recognized by his friends,
and by those whom he had known in the
world; for spirits recognize one anoth-
er, not only from his face and speech,
but also from the sphere of his life
when they come near him. When any
one in the other life thinks of another,
he also brings the others face before
him in thought, and at the same time
many of the circumstances of his life
and when he does this, the other be-
comes present, as IL he were sent for
and called. This occurs in the spiritual
world, from the fact that thoughts are
there communicated, and that there are
no spaces there, such as existin tile nat
ural world. Hence it is that all, when
they first come into the other life, are
recognized by their friends, relations,
and those with whom they were in any
way acquainted; andthat they converse
together, and afterwards associate ac-
cording to their friendship in the world.
have frequently heard that those who
came from the world rejoiced at seeing
their friends again, and that their
friends in turn reIoiced that they had
come to them. This is common oc-
currence:-that one married partner
meets the other, and that they mutual
ly congratulate each other; they also
remain together for time, longer or
shorter, according to the delight that
had attended their dwelling together at
the world.