What is the intermediate state after death?

In one sense, the whole of infinite space is a spiritual world. In another sense, the world also is a spiritual world, for you are spirit clothed with a human body. 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. There, angels specially appointed to this work instruct it for a time that may be long or short 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 like in nature and in mind to itself.

Михайло Пецкович | CC BY-SA 4.0