What happens after death?

In one sense, the whole of infinite space, fitted as it is with the presence of God, is a spiritual world.

The world is, also, a spiritual world, and its inhabitants are spirits clothed with human bodies.

But there is yet another world of spirits, which is the temporary dwelling place of spirits after they leave the body at death.

This is an intermediate state—a state between the glory and light of the highest heavens and the dimness and darkness of the lowest hells. In it are innumerable planes of existence and the soul is conducted to that plane for which its progress in the world has fitted it.

Angels, specially appointed to this work, instruct the spirit for a time before it goes on to join the society of those spirits—good spirits in the greater light or evil spirits in the greater darkness—that are alike in nature and mind to itself.