Plain unvarnished truths

The actual soul does not age permanently, though it carries the impress of the body when it first comes over. By degrees, freed from material cares, the signs of age disappear and the spirit-body looks like that of an adult in the prime of life and in perfect health.

Before I came to this life, I had thought, if there was a life, at all, after the death of the body, that each remained at the same age they were when they died. That a child remained as a child, and a man, a man; and an old person, still old.

When we leave the earth-life, we appear, for a short time, much as we did when we left it; but the moment we commence to learn heavenly wisdom, that moment we commence to grow young and beautiful; we do not go back to childhood in our appearance, neither, do we ever again have the same appearance that we had in the earth-life; but as we throw off error after error, and take on wisdom, love and truth, we become perfect and beautiful in our outward appearance; and every mark that time leaves upon us, is one of perfection and beauty.

Some of the angels here, are so bright and glorious, that even we, that have been here many years, cannot behold them; and those that come here as children, grow in love and wisdom, until they appear as full grown men and women, and then they go on like the rest.

The Discovered Country