Excerpt from The Evolution of Immortality

The Creed says, I believe in the resurrection Of the body. In its earlier and more naive form it says the resurrection of the flesh. This phrase is capable of a wider and more reasonable interpretation than the words would seem to imply. Such a meaning is Very gen erally read into it. But when the phrase was formulated, it was intended to mean precisely what it says. This is the meaning which it still has for the multitude. It means that at the moment Of death the soul and body sepa rate, that the body slowly decays and is disim tegrated, that the soul goes temporarily to a place Of its own where it endures in a state of partial self-consciousness for a long but indefi nite period, that at the end of that period every body which has ever lived will be recon stituted, Of the same -matter, with member, joint, and limb restored, that each soul will be reunited to its own body, that then comes judgment, reward, and doom.

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