20 DEATH AND RESURRECTION. 



which assimilates, typically forms, and 

 again secretes the earthly matter. It 

 must be this spiritual body, then, that 

 constitutes the combining element be- 

 tween man's earthly body and his glori- 

 fied body in the eternal life." 



Christianity speaks not only of a ma- 

 terial resurrection on the day of judg- 

 ment; it also says that man possesses 

 within him a spiritual body, which 

 after death immediately arises to ever- 

 lasting life. This latter conception is 

 not confined to Christianity. In all re- 

 ligions we find two tendencies side by 

 side, the one idealistic and the other 

 more realistic, which indeed are not 

 really opposed to each other, inasmuch 

 as the belief in a spiritual body may 

 be said to constitute the basis even for 

 the realistic conception that places the 

 spirit in co-relation with the body in 

 the grave. 



The idealistic tendency may be traced 

 away back even to prehistoric times 

 and has generally been connected with 

 some other burial methods, among 



