118 HEREDITY. 



form and clothing as lie had had in this world ; and 

 when, on the Mount, two men approached Jesus, the 

 glorified appearing likewise, and spoke with him, the 

 disciples immediately recognized them as Moses and 

 Elias. They appeared, therefore, in an external form 

 corresponding to their temporal history, and were, 

 therefore, unmistakable. But this external form is 

 a spiritual one. By virtue of an internal power, 

 spirits give themselves external human form when 

 they make themselves visible to whom they will. 

 The external appearance is the immaterial product 

 of their spiritual nature." (Ibid, p. 100.) 



" Are we at all to conclude thence, that the dead 

 even before their resurrection, and without awaken- 

 ing of their bodies, are not able to appear again? 

 The appearance of Moses and Samuel proves the 

 contrary. 



" We believe that the spirits of the departed are 

 in themselves not without a phenomenal bodily 

 form. 



" The soul of the spirit, we say with Goschel, after 

 the separation from its body is not wholly without a 

 body : the inward body follows it. 



" The soul is the doxa of the spirit, immaterial, but 

 similarly formed to the body, which the spirit through 

 it ensouls. It is, as the outside of the spirit, so the 

 inside of the body, which in every change of its ma- 

 terial condition maintains it in identity with itself." 

 (Ibid, pp. 502-504.) 



What am I reading ? The book of an erratic ? I 

 am citing the renowned work entitled " A System of 



