When any man after death comes into the spiritual world, which for the most part takes place the third day after he has expired, he appears to himself in a life similar to that in which he had been in the world, and in a similar house, chamber, and bed chamber, in a similar coat and clothing, and in a similar companionship within the house. If he was a king or a prince he appears in a similar palace, if a peasant in a similar cottage; rustic things surround the latter, splendid things the former. This happens to everyone after death, to the end that death may not appear as death, but as a continuation of life, and that the last of natural life may become the first of spiritual life, and that from this a man may progress to his goal, which will be either in heaven or in hell.