HH 498 - the first state after death

HH 498
This first state of a person after death continues with some for days,
with some for months, and with some for a year;
but seldom with any one beyond a year;
for a shorter or longer time with each one
according to the agreement or disagreement
of his interiors with his exteriors.
For with everyone the exteriors and interior must make one and correspond.
In the spiritual world no one is permitted to think and will in one way
and speak and act in another.
Everyone there must be an image of his own affection or his own love,
and therefore such as he is inwardly such he must be outwardly;
and for this reason a spirit's exteriors are first disclosed
and reduced to order
that they may serve the interiors as a corresponding plane.