When the being is freed from its physical body after death, its existence or experience of life of course changes. It can thus no longer experience and create directly on the physical plane of existence. It has been freed from having to juggle with heavy physical matter and the organism. It is now to manifest its thoughts only in spiritual matter, which is thousands of times lighter than physical matter and quite automatically takes shapes according to the being's will. Therefore the being's passage through the physical process of death becomes in reality a passage from a large and very heavy field of work to a field of experience that, in relation to the physical, must in itself be regarded very largely as a field of rest. Here it does not need to put its thoughts into words in order to make itself intelligible to its fellow beings, since its thoughts already appear to them as visible details in the spiritual matter around the being before it has put them into words. There are therefore no language problems on the spiritual plane of existence, because all beings here that are at the same stage in evolution can understand one another's thoughts or mental constructions. On this plane, mental activity is experienced as an outer phenomenon around the being and can be seen by anyone who can perceive on the wavelength of the being concerned. Thus beings cannot hide their characters. Here their honesty or dishonesty is exposed to their fellow beings. So not every being that has a high position on the physical plane of existence, that is honoured and respected as a "highly developed" being mainly because it belongs to the so-called "upper class" on this plane and has been able to dazzle its fellow beings with its wealth, luxury, distinguished titles, luxurious palaces, servants and so on, is truly great. These physical luxuries do not count on the spiritual plane because, behind them, there may well lurk a character that is a spiritual proletarian. And if this aspect is present in the human being living in luxury, this being will be helplessly exposed to its fellow beings on the spiritual plane. Here it cannot be concealed by physical luxury, gold and glitter.
      But in order to understand spiritual existence after death we must first take a brief look at the living being's experience of life as a whole. The manifestation of the latter being is experienced essentially as thinking. This is in turn the same as letting the object of the thought take form and become an image. As previously mentioned this image formation occurs in the first instance in spiritual matter and is triggered quite automatically by the individual's spiritual structure, just as the being in turn, through this structure's spiritual sensory organs, experiences the image formation. It is this spiritual thought process that constitutes the being's primary experience of life and that occurs in its purest spiritual form in those situations where the being is liberated from its physical organism and does not have to build up its thoughts in physical matter. As this spiritual experience of life is limited to being built up only of the kinds of thought that promote happiness and joy, spiritual existence is thus absolutely paradisiacal for every living being beyond its physical death.