I believe that the body of flesh is a mere husk which drops off at death, while the spiritual body (see St.Paul) emerges in glorious resurrection at once.

Swedenborg says, some persons do not immediately realise that they have passed death, and this seems to me highly probable.

It is curious that Maurice, Mr.Kingsley's friend, about whom so much lately has been written and quarrelled (and who _has_ made certain great mistakes, I think), takes this precise view of the resurrection, with an apparent unconsciousness of what Swedenborg has stated upon the subject, and that, I, too, long before I knew Swedenborg, or heard the name of Maurice, came to the same conclusions.
I wonder if Mr.Kingsley agrees with us.

I dare say he does, upon the whole--for the ordinary doctrine seems to me as little taught by Scripture as it can be reconciled with philosophical probabilities.

I believe in an active, _human_ life, beyond death as before it, an uninterrupted human life.