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Our career in the spirit world is often spoken of as man’s first estate … The next step in the education of these intelligent beings was, therefore, to teach them familiarity with gross matter … This is called the second estate of man … We pass out of this [second estate], but reappear in another world [spirit world]. For a brief time we are separated for our earth–worn body, but finally we shall become possessed of [resurrected] bodies, composed of both kinds of universal matter. In this [third] estate, spirit-matter and the grosser matter of earth of our final bodies are represented by their essences, which permit perfect freedom and ease of movement and thought. These celestial bodies, as they are called, connect the intelligence of man with all parts of the universe, and become mighty helps in the endless search for truth. This is the third estate of man. Such then are the three estates, and, so far as known, all the estates of man.Share
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