Allegorie auf den Tod einer jungen Gattin

The deceased wife appears to her surviving husband, grabs his left hand and points invitingly to the afterlife, up to the light-filled sky; he points to a group of objects that symbolize the duties of life on earth. Freudweiler's view of the soul is based on the ideas of the Swedish universal scholar and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg (16 88-1772), according to which the soul possesses a spiritual body, around which the earthly body is wrapped like a garment; in death, this body slips off as easily as a shadow, so that the person at first hardly notices that he has died - death and resurrection collide. According to Swedenborg, two spouses who are inwardly united appear in heaven not as two people, but as an androgynous angel. Source