Recognition of spirits in heaven

Spirits of the departed can manifest their respective presences to the interior perceptions of some in whatever shape or form they may please necessary to establish their identities. Some come in their youthful forms as they were last seen by their earthly friends and others in the maturity of manhood. Some appear in garments similar to those worn on earth, while others come in girdles of resplendent light or flowing robes of snowy white.

They possess the means, at any and at all times, of establishing to their friends, with undoubted accuracy, their positive identities. Upon the advent of spirits into the Higher Life, their angelic friends appear to them as they were last seen in the earth existence. Then, as their perceptions become more refined by contact with spiritual things, they behold the advancement which they have made, and they appear no longer to their eyes in the garb of infancy or childhood, but that of a beautifully matured and developed spirit.