Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. WHAT DO WE KNOW OF THE INTERMEDIATE STATE? "But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they beheld a spirit."—Luke 24: 37. "Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? And he said, Bring me up Samuel. . . . And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? "—I Sam. 28:11, 15. Let it be recalled again that at the outset of this inquiry into existence hereafter two questions were presented for answer: i. Who will live after death ? 2. What will be the essential nature and the attendant conditions of that existence? Assuming that death is simply the destruction of all the external evidences of the power of thought, and not the annihilation of that power itself, and that therefore a human being once brought into existence must forever continue to exist, we answered the first question by saying that all mankind will live after death. tWe are now ready to discuss thesecond question. What do we know of that life hereafter? The first thing to be noticed is that that life must be treated of under two distinct aspects and two separate periods. That which causes this distinction and separation is a fact of revelation under the New Covenant, viz., the resurrection from the dead. When that event occurs, another change will be made in the conditions of human existence, a change resulting in a reunion of the soul with a body as its final, everlasting tenement. As we shall see in a succeeding article, this will not be a resumption of this present earthly life, but an essentially different one in many respects. Before passing to consider it, however, we are logically called to study what will be our condition in the period between death and this second change. What do we know of spirit-existence ? Has Science or Revelation anything t...