The state of freed souls is adumbrated figuratively; II duplex common or proper; III common = departure from the visible world
But the state of freed souls Scripture does not so much express to us as adumbrate by the word house taken figuratively. For concerning the state of the future life, as it regards the soul, almost nothing is properly enunciated in the sacred writings. Rightly indeed Irenaeus (book 2, chapter 35) says it is fitting that earthly things be types of those that are heavenly, yet made by the same God. For spiritual images could not otherwise be assimilated. What is this? Heavenly things cannot otherwise be taught except figuratively. Gregory of Nyssa seems to give the reason of this matter: Nor indeed, he says, let anyone describe to me the figure, habit, and form of that dwelling not made by hand, after the likeness of those figures which now appear in us. For since not only is the resurrection preached to us from the sacred letters, but also a change is promised: it is altogether necessary that it be hidden and utterly unknown into what we shall be changed — inasmuch as no example and no likeness of the things hoped for is seen in this life. See Sanford, On the Descent to Hell, book 2, folios 43 and 44.
II. The state of the separated soul is twofold, common or proper.
III. The common state is each soul's departure from this visible world by dissolution from its body.
Latin
Solutarum vero animarum statum non tam exprimit nobis, quam adumbrat vox aedes figuratae accepta. Nam de futurae vitae statu, quod ad animam spectat, nihil fere in sacris proprie enunciatur. Recte enim Irenaeus l. 2. cap. 35. terrena, ait, congruit typos esse eorum, quae sunt coelestia, ab eodem tamen Deo facta. Neque enim aliter potuerunt assimilari spirituales imagines. Quid hoc? Non aliter possunt nisi figurate edoceri coelestia. Cujus rei rationem reddere Gregorius Nyssenus videtur. Neque vero, inquiens, quis mihi figuram habitumque & formam describat, illius non manu facti domicilii, ad similitudinem earum figurarum quae nunc apparent in nobis. Cum enim non solum resurrectio nobis a sacris literis praedicata sit, verum etiam immutatio promissa: omnino necesse est absconditum esse & prorsus ignorari in quid immutabimur: quippe cum nullum exemplum, nullaque similitudo eorum, quae sperantur in vita, conspiciatur. Vide Sanfordum lib. 2. de descensu ad inferos f. 43. & 44. II. Status animae separatae duplex est, communis aut proprius. III. Communis est, animae cujusque ex hoc visibili mundo per solutionem a corpore suo discessio.