Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine WisdomSwedenborg, Emanuel
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Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom
Swedenborg, Emanuel
God (Christianity) -- Love; God (Christianity) -- Wisdom
389. That man may be man there must be no part lacking, either in head or
in body, that has existence in the complete man; since there is nothing
therein that does not enter into the human form and constitute it; for it
is the form of love and wisdom, and this, in itself considered, is Divine.
In it are all terminations of love and wisdom, which in God-Man are
infinite, but in His image, that is, in man, angel, or spirit, are finite.
If any part that has existence in man were lacking, there would be lacking
something of termination from the love and wisdom corresponding to it,
whereby the Lord might be from firsts in outmosts with man, and might from
His Divine Love through His Divine Wisdom provide uses in the created
world.
390. (7) The conjunction of man's spirit with his body is by means of the
correspondence of his will and understanding with his heart and lungs, and
their separation is from non- correspondence. As it has heretofore been
unknown that man's mind, by which is meant the will and understanding, is
his spirit, and that the spirit is a man; and as it has been unknown that
man's spirit, as well as his body, has a pulse and respiration, it could
not be known that the pulse and respiration of the spirit in man flow into
the pulse and respiration of his body and produce them. Since, then, man's
spirit, as well as his body, enjoys a pulse and respiration, it follows
that there is a like correspondence of the pulse and respiration of man's
spirit with the pulse and respiration of his body, - for, as was said, his
mind is his spirit, - consequently, when the two pairs of motions cease to
correspond, separation takes place, which is death. Separation or death
ensues when from any kind of disease or accident the body comes into such
a state as to be unable to act in unison with its spirit, for thus
correspondence perishes, and with it conjunction; not, however, when
respiration alone ceases, but when the heart's pulsation ceases. For so
long as the heart is moved, love with its vital heat remains and preserves
life, as is evident in cases of swoon and suffocation, and in the condition
of fetal life in the womb. In a word, man's bodily life depends on the
correspondence of its pulse and respiration with the pulse and respiration
of his spirit; and when that correspondence ceases, the bodily life ceases,
and his spirit departs and continues its life in the spiritual world,
which is so similar to his life in the natural world that he does not know
that he has died. Men generally enter the spiritual world two days after
the death of the body. For I have spoken with some after two days.
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