493. Our first state after death is like our state in this world, since we are then similarly involved in outward concerns. We have similar faces, voices, and character; we lead similar moral and civil lives. This is why it still seems to us as though we were in this world unless we notice things that are out of the ordinary and remember that angels told us we were spirits when we were awakened (450). So the one life carries on into the other, and death is only a passage.
Divine Love and Wisdom #54
54. The presence of the Divine in one recipient vessel is no different from its presence in another, but one created vessel differs from another. For no two things are identical, and it is the vessel therefore that differs. So it is that the image of the Divine has a varying appearance. (The presence of the Divine in vessels opposed to it will be explained in subsequent discussions.)
