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EATH is the renunciation of the natural body; nothing more. The soul then lives consciously in a spiritual world and in a spiritual body.

"There is a natural body and there is a spiritual body," says Paul.

Natural and spiritual! We think of one as being something solid and real; of the other as something ethereal, intangible, almost incomprehensible. This arises from the darkness of our natural state, and the feebleness of our spiritual perceptions. The spiritual has every form, quality, and property which we attribute to the natural. When death liberates us from our prison-house, our conceptions will be exactly reversed; that world will be substantial and this a shadow; that life will be the waking state and this the dream.

God has created two substances; so different that they do not connect by continuity—that is, they do not pass or run one into the other. One is within