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tioned, is applicable to our own perfected corporeity. 

 In these intelligences we find the possession of true 

 and sensible bodies. They were visible in the dawn, 

 at broad day, in the evening, and at night ; they con- 

 versed with man ; they ate and drank the food pre- 

 pared for them. And yet, if we continue to study 

 the history, we find a marked difference between this 

 corporeity and our own, inasmuch as it could vanish 

 away at any moment, and appear again with the same 

 facility. There is, indeed, the very capacity of change 

 which is seen in the divine humanity of Christ after 

 his resurrection ; and as in this case we have to do 

 with created beings, we may argue that the human 

 body after its resurrection, will be transformed in such 

 a manner as to be assimilated to the angelic body, 

 and to that in which Deity was incarnated. 



When, therefore, we examine the perfected state of 

 man, and find that, as at present, the mental or 

 spiritual essence is associated with a distinct bodily 

 form, we obtain a strong argument in favour of our 

 previous position that this communion is not dis- 

 solved in the interval between death and resurrection. 

 Indeed, upon the high grounds which have just been 

 taken, it is scarcely possible to entertain the thought 

 of mind existing as a naked essence apart from cor- 

 poreity, nor of body as a foreign addition to mind. 

 So far, indeed, from body being distinct and inde- 

 pendent, it would seem to be mind incarnated in 



