“In outward appearance the spiritual world is quite similar to the natural world... The human race is there as angels and spirits... This spiritual world is entirely similar to the universe of the natural world, with one difference, that things are not fixed and stationary there, as in the natural world, because nothing there is natural, but all is spiritual.” Divine Love and Wisdom 321

“They who dwell in heaven are continually advancing to the springtime of life and to a spring more and more delightful and happy the more thousands of years they live; and this to eternity, with increase according to the progress and degrees of love, charity, and faith... In a word, to grow old in heaven is to grow young. Those who have lived in love to the Lord and in charity towards the neighbor become of such beautiful form in the other life.” Heaven and Hell 414

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Existence of the Afterlife Where Angels are From Life in Heaven The Universal Human The Sun in Heaven God Lets More People into Heaven than You or I Would

The After Life in This Life

Sermons about the next world: How We Look To Angels (PDF) Spirits And Men (PDF) Death And Resurrection (PDF) Great books for helping cope with the loss of a loved one: Journal for Grief and Healing, by D. Alfelt. A Dove at the Window, by V. Glenn.

Answers to Tough Questions about Life After Death

Angels What do Angels Do? Will I see my Loved Ones when I Die?

“I can solemnly avow that as soon as we die, we are in the other life, and are living as spirits among spirits, we then look to ourselves and to others exactly like people in this world, furnished with every sense both inner and outer. Specifically, physical death is simply the loss of the things that served us for our usefulness and functioning in this world. First and foremost, death itself is a continuation of life, but in another world, which is invisible to the eyes of our earthly bodies, but visible there in a light that surpasses by a thousandfold the light of noonday on earth. Since I know this from so many years' first hand experience right up to the present time, I can solemnly avow it. I now talk, and have talked in the past, with almost all the people I have known in the world who have died, with some just two or three days after their decease. Most of them were quite embarrassed that they had not believed that life would continue after death. I have talked with them not just for a day, but over months and years, and I have been allowed to witness the successive states of their lives, moving either toward heaven or toward hell.” Arcana Coelestia 8939.2