falsification and profanation of the truths of the Word; for seven is predicated of things holy, and, in an opposite sense, of things profane; therefore, it follows, that on his heads there appeared seven diadems, and by diadems are signified the truths of the Word, which are here falsified and profaned. A. R. 538. 563. "And ten horns," signifies much power. A horn signifies power; and ten signifies much. The reason why it is said that the dragon has much power, is, because the salvation of man by faith alone, without the works of the law, which faith is meant by the dragon, captivates men's minds, and the result of this is, that confirmations exert a persuasive influence: it captivates, because man, on hearing that the damnation of the law is taken away, and the Lord's merit is imputed to him through faith therein alone, can indulge in the pleasures of his mind and body, without any fear of hell; hence comes the power which is signified by the ten horns of the dragon. That such has been his power, evidently appears from the reception of that faith every where throughout the reformed Christian world. — A. R. 539. of heaven and the church. That all the truths of the Word have been destroyed by those who are meant by the dragon spoken of above, cannot be believed by any one in the world, and yet they have been so destroyed, as that not a single doctrinal truth remains; this matter was examined into, in the spiritual world, among the learned of the clergy, and was found to be the fact. The reasons I know, but I shall here mention only one of them;-they assert, that whatsoever proceeds from man's will and judgment is not good; and that therefore the goods of charity, or good works, being done by man, contribute nothing to salvation, but faith only; when, nevertheless, that alone, by virtue of which man is man, and by which he has conjunction with the Lord, is his having it in his power to do good and believe truth, as from himself, that is, as from his own will according to his own judgment; were this faculty to be taken away from him, all power of conjunction on the part of man with the Lord, would also be taken away at the same time, and of the Lord with man; for it constitutes that power of reciprocation of love, which the Lord bestows on every one who is 564. "And seven diadems upon his heads," sig- born a man, and which he also preserves in him to nifies all the truths of the Word falsified and pro- the end of his life, and afterwards to eternity. If faned. By diadems, or precious stones, are signi- this power were to be taken away from man, every fied the truths of the Word; specifically, the truths truth and good of the Word would also be taken of the literal sense of the Word, but here, those away, insomuch that the Word would be nothing truths falsified and profaned, from their being seen but a dead letter and a blank book; for the Word upon the seven heads of the dragon, by which is teaches nothing else but the conjunction of man signified insanity from truths falsified and profaned. with the Lord by charity and faith, and both from The reason why the truths of the Word, when fal- man as from himself. They who are meant by the sified and profaned, are also called diadems, is, be- dragon spoken of above, have broken this only cause they have a lustre from themselves, whether bond of conjunction, by asserting, that the goods they be possessed by this person or that; in the of charity, or good works, which proceed from man, same manner as diadems on earth, in whatever and his will and judgment, are only moral, civil, hands they may happen to be. It has sometimes and political works, by which man has conjunction been permitted me to see adulterous women, on with the world, and none at all with God and with their first coming from the earth into the world of heaven; and when that bond is thus broken, there spirits, decked with diadems; and Jews, likewise, is then no doctrinal truth of the Word remaining; selling diadems, which they had procured to them- and if the truths of the Word are applied to conselves from heaven; from which circumstance it firm, that faith alone is saving without the works was plain, that evils and falses, with such, do not of the law, then they are all falsified; and if the change the lustre and light of the truths of the falsification proceeds so far as to affirm, that the Word. Therefore the like is signified by the ten Lord has not commanded good works in the Word diadems upon the horns of the beast which came for the sake of man's conjunction with himself, but up out of the sea, Apoc. xiii. 1; and by the pre-only for the sake of his conjunction with the world, cious stones on the woman who sat on the scarlet then the truths of the Word are profaned; for thus colored beast, Apoc. xvii. 3–5. That the truths the Word becomes no longer a Holy Book, but a of the Word are what are signified by diadems, profane one.-A. R. 541. appears manifestly in the Apocalypse, in that there were seen upon the head of him who sat upon the white horse, and whose name was the Word of God, many diadems, xix. 12, 13. — A. R. 540. 566. "And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to be delivered, to devour her child as soon as it was born," signifies, that they who are meant by the dragon will endeavor to extinguish the doctrine of the New Church & its birth. By bringing forth, is signified to receive the goods and truths of doctrine from the Word; by the child of which she was delivered, is signified the Doctrine of the New Church. To devour, signifies to extinguish, because by a child is signified doctrine; and when to devour is said in relation to the child, to extinguish is said in relation to the doctrine. The reason why this was the case at the birth of the doctrine, is, because it is said, that the dragon stood before the woman, to devour her child as soon as it was born. 565. "And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth," signifies, that by falsifications of the truths of the Word they have alienated all spiritual knowledge of good and truth from the church, and, by applications to falses, have entirely destroyed them. By the tail, when the subject treated of relates to those who have confirmed heretical doctrines from the Word, are signified the truths of the Word falsified; by stars are signified spiritual knowledges of good and truth; by the third part, is signified all; and by drawing them from heaven, and casting them to the earth, is signified to alienate-A. R. 542. them from the church, and to destroy them utterly; 567. "And she brought forth a male child," sigfor when they are drawn from heaven, they are also nifies the doctrine of the New Church. By a son, drawn from the church, because every truth of the Word is insinuated from the Lord through heaven into the man of the church; nor are truths drawn away by any thing else but by falsifications of them in the Word, since there and thence are the truths in the Word, is signified the truth of doctrine, and also the understanding, and thence the thought, of truth and good; but by a daughter, is signified the good of doctrine, as also the will, and thence the affection, of truth and good; and by a male child, is signified truth conceived in the spiritual man, and born in the natural man. The reason is, because by generations and births, in the Word, are signified spiritual generations and births, all which in general relate to good and truth; for nothing else is begotten, and born of the Lord as a husband, and of the church as a wife. Now since by the woman who brought forth, is signified the New Church, it is plain that by the male child, is signified the doctrine of that church. The doctrine here meant, is the Doctrine of the New Jerusalem, published in London, 1758; and also the Doctrine concerning the Lord, concerning the Sacred Scripture, and concerning a Life according to the Commandments of the Decalogue, published in Amsterdam; for by doctrine are understood all the truths of doctrine, doctrine being the complex of them. When these doctrines were written, the dragonists stood around me, and endeavored, with all their fury, to devour or extinguish them; this strange circumstance it was permitted me to relate, because, of a truth, it so happened. The dragonists who stood round me were from all parts of the reformed Christian world. — A. R. 543. 568. "Who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron," signifies, which, by truths from the literal sense of the Word, and, at the same time, by rational arguments drawn from the light of nature, will convince all who are in dead worship through being principled in faith separated from charity, that are willing to be convinced. This refers to the doctrine of the New Church, because it is spoken of the male child, by whom that doctrine is signified. A. R. 544. also ejected by the dragonists; the like happened with the Christian church, which increased successively from a few to many. Another reason is, that a new heaven is first to be formed, which will act as one with the church on earth; therefore we read, that he saw a new heaven, and the Holy Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, Apoc. xxi. 1, 2. It is certain that a new church, which is the New Jerusalem, will exist, because it is foretold in the Apocalypse, chap. xxi. xxii.; and it is also certain, that the falses of the former church are first to be removed, because they are what the Apocalypse treats of as far as chapter xx.-A. R. 547. Why the New Church will first be confined to a few. 572. The causes why the New Church, which is called the Holy Jerusalem, is first to commence with a few, afterwards with greater numbers, and so at last to arrive to its full state, are several; the first is, that its doctrine, which is the doctrine of love to the Lord and charity towards the neighbor, cannot be acknowledged and thence received, except by those who are interiorly affected with truths, and no others are interiorly affected with truths but they who see them, and they only see them who have cultivated their intellectual faculty, and have not destroyed it in themselves by the loves of self and of the world. Another cause is, that the doctrine of that church cannot be acknowledged, nor consequently received, except by those who have not confirmed themselves in doctrine, and at the same time in life, in faith alone; confirmation in doctrine only, does not hinder reception, but if it be at the same time in life, it does hinder, for such persons do not know what love to the Lord is, nor what neighborly love or charity is, neither are they willing to know. The third cause 570. "And the woman fled into the wilderness," is, that the New Church on earth increases accordsignifies the church, which is the New Jerusalem, ing to its increase in the world of spirits, for spirits at first confined to a few. By the woman, is signi- from thence are with men, and they are from those fied the New Church; and by a wilderness, is who were in the faith of their church, whilst they signified where there are no longer any truths. lived on earth, and no others of them receive the That its being confined at first to a few, is signi- doctrine, but those who were in the spiritual affecfied, because it follows, where she had a place tion of truth; such only are conjoined to heaven prepared of God, that they should feed, her there a where that doctrine is, and conjoin heaven to man; thousand two hundred and sixty days, by which is the number of those in the spiritual world now signified its state at that time, that in the mean increases daily, wherefore according to their inwhile an increase of its numbers may be provided crease, the church which is called the New Jerufor, until it comes to its appointed maturity.-salem increases on earth. These also were the A. R. 546. causes, why the Christian Church, after the Lord left the world, increased so slow in Europe, and did not arrive to its full until an age had elapsed. - A. E. 732. 569. “And her child was caught up unto God and to his throne," signifies the protection of the doctrine by the Lord, because it is for the use of the New Church, and its being guarded by the angels of heaven.-A. R. 545. are formed. 571. " Where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and sixty days," signifies the state of the church at that time, while provision is making for its increase among many until it arrives at matu- Of whom the New Heaven and New Church rity. By place is signified state; and by feeding, provision for its increase, for thus is the church fed; hence by having a place prepared of God that they should feed her, is signified the state of the church preparatory to its increase; by a thousand two hundred and sixty days, is signified to the end and beginning, that is, to the end of the former church and the beginning of the new, the same as by a time, and times, and half a time, verse 14; thus, also, to its appointed station, that is, until it exists as has been provided it should exist. It is of the Lord's divine providence, that the church should at first be confined to a few, and that its numbers should successively increase, because the falses of the former church must first be removed; for before this, truths cannot be received, since truths, which are received and implanted before falses are removed, do not remain, and they are 573. The new heaven is formed of all those who, from the advent of the Lord even to this time, had lived a life of faith and charity; as these alone are forms of heaven. For the form of heaven, according to which all consociations and communications there exist, is the form of divine truth from divine good, proceeding from the Lord; and man puts on this form, as to his spirit, by a life according to divine truth. Hence it may be known of whom the new heaven is formed, and thereby what is its quality, viz., that it is altogether unanimous. For he that lives a life of faith and charity loves another as himself, and by love conjoins him with himself, and this reciprocally and mutually; for love is conjunction in the spiritual world. Wherefore, when all act in like manner, then from many, yea, from innumerable individuals, consoci ated according to the form of heaven, unanimity | upon the Reformed, inasmuch as it is the principal exists, and they become as one; for there is then tenet of their church. A second reason is, because nothing which separates and divides, but every the Roman Catholics entertain an idea of divine thing conjoins and unites. 574. Inasmuch as this heaven was formed of all those who had been of such a quality from the coming of the Lord until the present time, it is plain that it is composed as well of Christians as of Gentiles, but chiefly of infants, from all parts of the world, who have died since the Lord's coming; for all these were received by the Lord, and educated in heaven, and instructed by the angels, and then reserved, that they, together with the others, might constitute a new heaven; whence it may be concluded how great that heaven is. H. D. 2, 3. 575. They will be continually received into the New Jerusalem, who are in truths derived from the good of love to the Lord, because there is not any falsity of faith there. The reason why such are received, is, because the light of the New Jerusalem is truth derived from the good of that love, and into that light no others can enter. A. R. 922. A New Church generally established first, with those who are out of the Old Church. 576. Moreover it is to be observed, when any church becomes no church, that is, when charity perishes, and a new church is established by the Lord, that this rarely, if ever, takes place amongst those with whom the old church was, but amongst those with whom there was before no church, that is, amongst the gentiles; this was the case when the most ancient church perished; a new one which was called Noah, or the ancient church which was after the flood, was then established amongst the gentiles, that is, amongst those where here was no church before; in like manner when his church perished, then somewhat resembling a church was established amongst the posterity of Abraham from Jacob, thus again amongst the genles; for Abraham, when he was called, was a gentile; the posterity of Jacob in Egypt became still more gentile, insomuch that they were altogether ignorant of Jehovah, consequently of all divine worship; after this resemblance of a church was consummated, then the primitive church was established from the gentiles, the Jews being rejected in like manner it will be with this church which is called Christian. The cause that a new church is established by the Lord amongst the gentiles, is, because they have no false principles against the truths of faith, for they are ignorant of the truths of faith; false principles imbibed from infancy, and afterwards confirmed, must first be dispersed, before man can be regenerated, and become of the church; yea, the gentiles cannot profane holy things by evils of life, for no one can profane what is holy, who is ignorant what it is; the gentiles, being in ignorance, and without grounds of offence, are in a better state for receiving truths than those who are of the church, and all those amongst them, who are in the good of life, asily receive truths.-A. C. 2986. The Catholics may come into the New Church majesty belonging to the Humanity of the Lord, more than the Reformed do, as is evident from their most devout veneration of the host. A third reason is, because they hold charity, good works, repentance, and attention to amendment of life, to be essentials of salvation, and these are also essentials of the New Church; but the case is otherwise with the Reformed, who are confirmed in faith alone; with these the above are neither regarded as essentials nor formalities belonging to faith, and consequently as not at all contributing to salvation. These are three reasons why the Roman Catholics, if they approach God the Saviour Himself, not mediately, but immediately, and likewise administer the holy eucharist in both kinds, may more easily than the Reformed receive a living faith in the room of a dead faith, and be conducted by angels from the Lord to the gates of the New Jerusalem or New Church, and be introduced therein with joy and shouting.-D. J. 108. external.-A. E. 403. 578. The New Church, in its beginning, will be Doctrinals alone do not constitute even the External, nor do they distinguish any Church before the Lord, but a Life of Charity according. 579. Doctrinals alone do not constitute the external, much less the internal of the church, as was shown above; nor do they serve to distinguish churches before the Lord: but this is effected by a life according to doctrinals, all which, if they are true, regard charity as their fundamental; for what is the end and design of doctrinals but to teach how inan should live? The several churches in the Christian world are distinguished by their doctrinals, and the members of those churches have hence taken the names of Roman Catholics, Lutherans, Calvinists, or the Reformed and Evangelical Protestants; with many others. This distinction of names arises solely from doctrinals, and would never have had place, if the members of the church had made love to the Lord, and charity towards their neighbor, the principal point of faith. Doctrinals would then be only varieties of opinion concerning the mysteries of faith, which they who are true Christians would leave to every one to receive according to his conscience, whilst it would be the language of their hearts, that he is a true Christian who lives as a Christian, that is, as the Lord teaches. Thus one church would be formed out of all these diverse ones, and all disagreements arising from mere doctrinals would vanish, yea, all the animosities of one against another would be dissipated in a moment, and the kingdom of the Lord would be established on earth. The ancient church which existed immediately after the flood, although dispersed over several kingdoms, was of such a character; so that, notwithstanding they differed much from each other in respect to doctrinals, they still made charity the principal thing, and regarded each other's worship, not from the doctrinals of faith, but from the charity of life which entered into it. This is meant by what is said of that church, Gen. xi. 1; that "they had all one language, and their words were one."-A. C. 1799. more easily than the Protestants. 577. The first reason why the Roman Catholics may be brought into the New Jerusalem, or New Church, more easily than the Reformed, is, because the faith of justification by the imputation of the merit of Christ, which is an erroneous faith, and The New Church the Crown of all other Churches, and to endure for Ages of Ages. cannot be together with the faith of the New Church, is with them obliterated, and is like to be 580. That this church is the crown of all the still more fully so; whereas it is as it were engraven | churches that have hitherto been in the world, is, because it will worship one visible God, in whom In Isaiah: "Let thy eyes see Jerusalem a quiet is the invisible God, as the soul is in the body. habitation, a tabernacle which shall not be taker That thus and no otherwise there can be conjunc- down; its stakes shall never be removed, and its tion of God with man, is because man is natural, cords shall not be broken," xxxiii. 20. In these and thence thinks naturally; and the conjunction passages, by Jerusalem is meant the holy New must be in his thought, and thus in the affection Jerusalem, described in Rev. xxi., by which is of his love, and this is effected when man thinks meant the New Church. Again in Isaiah: "There of God as Man. Conjunction with an invisible shall go forth a Rod out of the stem of Jesse, and God is like conjunction of the sight of the eye righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and with the expanse of the universe, of which it sees truth the girdle of his thighs. Wherefore the wolf no end; and also like sight in the middle of the shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard with the ocean, which falls into the air and into the sea, and kid, and the calf and the young lion and the fatperishes; but conjunction with a visible God is ling together, and a little child shall lead them. like the sight of a man, in the air or on the sea, And the cow and the bear shall feed, and the spreading out his hands and inviting to his arms; young ones shall lie down together; and the sucking for all conjunction of God with man must also be child shall play on the hole of the viper, and the a reciprocal one of man with God, and this other weaned child shall put his hand over the den of reciprocal cannot be given, except with a visible the basilisk. They shall not do evil, nor corrupt God. themselves, in all the mountain of my holiness; 581. That this church is to succeed the churches for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of which have existed since the beginning of the Jehovah. It shall come to pass in that day, the world, and that it is to endure for ages of ages, and nations shall seek the Root of Jesse, which standthat thus it is to be the crown of all the churches eth for an ensign of the people, and his rest shall that have been before, was prophesied by Daniel; be glorious,” xi. 1, 5-10. That such things have first, when he told and explained to Nebuchadnez-not as yet existed in the churches, and especially zar his dream concerning the four kingdoms, by in the last, is known. In Jeremiah: "Behold the which are meant the four churches, represented by days are coming, in which I will make a new covthe statue seen by him; saying, "In the days of enant. And this shall be the covenant: I will give these, the God of heaven shall cause to arise a my law in the midst of them, and will write it on kingdom, which shall not perish for ages; and it their heart; and I will be to them a God, and they shall consume all those kingdoms, but it shall shall be to Me a people; they all shall know Me, stand for ages," Dan. ii. 44; and that this should from the least of them even to the greatest of be done by the stone, which became a great rock, them,” xxxi. 31–34; Rev. xxi. 3. That these things filling the whole earth, 35. By a rock in the Word have not been given hitherto in the churches, is is meant the Lord as to divine truth. And the also known: the reason was, because they did not same prophet elsewhere says, "I was seeing in approach a visible God, whom all shall know, and the visions of the night, and behold, with the because He is the Word, or the law, which He clouds of heaven, as it were, the Son of Man; to will put in the midst of them, and write it on their Him was given dominion, and glory, and a king- heart. In Isaiah: "For Jerusalem's sake I will dom; and all people, nations, and tongues shall not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth worship Him. His dominion is the dominion of an as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp age which will not pass away, and his kingdom that burneth. And thou shalt be called by a new one which will not perish," vii. 13, 14. And this name, which the mouth of Jehovah shall utter. he says after he had seen the four beasts coming And thou shalt be a crown of glory and a diadem up out of the sea, verse 3; by which also the four of royally in the hand of thy God. Jehovah will former churches were represented. That these delight in thee, and thy land shall be married. things were prophesied by Daniel concerning this Behold, thy Salvation shall come; behold, his time, is evident from his words, xii. 4, and also reward is with Him; and they shall call them the from the words of the Lord, Matt. xxiv. 15, 30. people of holiness, the redeemed of Jehovah; and The like is said in the Revelation: "The seventh thou shalt be called a city sought, and not desertangel sounded; then there came great voices from ed. — T. C. R. 787–789." heaven, saying, The kingdoms of the world are become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and He shall reign for ages of ages,” xi. 15. PART III. THE HUMAN SOUL AND MIND. Origin of the Soul. 583. It is a tenet of wisdom, that the soul of man, that lives after death, is his spirit, and that this is in perfect form a man, and that the soul of this form is the will and understanding, and that the soul of these is love and wisdom from the Lord, and these two constitute the life of man, which is from the Lord alone, and that the Lord, for the sake of the reception of Himself by man, causes life to appear as if it were man's. — D. L. W. 394. 582. Besides, the rest of the prophets have, in many places, predicted concerning this church, what it is to be; from which these few will be adduced. In Zechariah: "There shall be one day which shall be known to Jehovah, not day nor night, because about the time of evening there shall be light. In that day, living waters shall go forth out of Jerusalem; and Jehovah shall be King over all the earth. In that day, Jehovah shall be one, and his name one," xiv. 7-9. In Joel: "It shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and Jerusalem shall remain to generation and generation," iv. 17-21. In Jeremiah: "At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of Jehovah, and all the gentiles shall be gathered together, on account of the name of Jehovah, to Jerusalem; neither shall they go any more after the confirma- 585. That the soul is from the father, is called tion of their evil heart," iii. 17; Rev. xxi. 24, 26. in question by no wise man; it is also manifestly 584. The soul of every man from its origin is heavenly, wherefore it receives influx immediately from the Lord, for it receives from Him the marriage of love and wisdom, or of good and truth, and this influx makes him man, and distinguishes him from beasts.-C. L. 482. conspicuous from minds (animis), and likewise from xi. 25; and again: "Seeing they do not see, and faces, which are types of minds, in descendants hearing they do not hear, neither do they underwho proceed from fathers of families in just series; stand,” xiii. 13; for the simple think no such thing for the father returns as in effigy, if not in his concerning the soul, but believe that they shall sons, yet in his grandsons and great-grandsons; live after death, in which simple faith lies conand this is the case, because the soul makes the cealed, although they are not aware of it, a belief inmost of man, and this may be covered over by that they shall live there as men, shall see angels, the nearest offspring, but still it betrays and re- shall discourse with them, and enjoy happiness. veals itself in the progeny afterwards. That the soul is from the father, and the clothing from the mother, may be illustrated by things analogous in the vegetable kingdom; in this the earth or ground is the common mother; this receives into itself, as if in the womb, and clothes the seeds, yea, as it were, conceives, is pregnant with, brings forth and educates them, as a mother her progeny from the father.-C. L. 206. The Divine Inmost. 586. With every angel, and likewise with every man, there is an inmost or supreme degree, or an inmost and supreme something, into which the Divine of the Lord first or proximately flows, and from which it disposes the other interior things, which succeed according to the degrees of order with the angel or man. This inmost or supreme may be called the entrance of the Lord to angel and to man, and his veriest dwelling-place with them. By this inmost or supreme, man is man, and is distinguished from brute animals; for these have it not. Hence it is that man, otherwise than animals, can as to all the interiors which are of his mind [mens] and mind [animus] be elevated by the Lord to Himself, can believe in Him, be affected with love to Him, and thus see Him; and that he can receive intelligence and wisdom, and speak from reason: hence also it is that he lives to eternity. But what is disposed and provided by the Lord in that inmost, does not flow in manifestly into the perception of any angel, because it is above his thought, and exceeds his wisdom. H. H. 39. 588. With regard to the soul, of which it is said it shall live after death, it is nothing else than the man himself, who lives in the body, that is, the interior man, who by the body acts in the world, and who gives to the body to live; this man, when he is loosed from the body, is called a spirit, and appears then altogether in a human form, yet cannot in any wise be seen by the eyes of the body, but by the eyes of the spirit, and before the eyes of the latter, appears as a man in the world, has senses, namely, of touch, of smell, of hearing, of seeing, much more exquisite than in the world; has appetites, cupidities, desires, affections, loves, such as in the world, but in a more excellent degree; thinks also as in the world, but more perfectly; converses with others; in a word, he is there as in the world, insomuch that if he does not reflect upon the circumstance of his being in the other life, he knows no other than that he is in the world, which I have occasionally heard from spirits; for the life after death is a continuation of life in the world. This then is the soul of man which lives after death. But lest the idea should fall upon somewhat unknown by using the term soul, in consequence of the conjectures and hypotheses concerning it, it is better to say the spirit of man, or, if you prefer it, the interior man, for it appears there altogether as a man, with all the members and organs that man has, and it is also the man himself in the body; that this is the case, may also be manifest from the angels seen, as recorded in the Word, who were all seen in the human form, for all the angels in heaven have a human form, because the Lord has, who after his resurrection appeared so often as a man. angel and the spirit of a man is a man in form, is 587. That ignorance prevails as to every quality because the universal heaven from the Lord has of the soul, especially in the learned world, may [a tendency] to conspire to the human form, whence be manifest from this, that some believe it to be a the universal heaven is called the grand man, concertain ethereal principle, some a flamy or fiery cerning which and concerning the correspondence principle, some a purely thinking principle, some a of all things of man therewith, it has been treated general vital principle, some a natural active prin- at the close of several chapters; and because the ciple. And what is still a further proof of the Lord lives in every individual in heaven, and by prevailing ignorance concerning the nature of the influx from the Lord the universal heaven acts soul is, that various places in the body are assigned upon every individual, therefore every angel is an it, some placing it in the heart, some in the image thereof, that is, a form most perfectly hubrain, and in the fibres there, others in the striated man, in like manner man after death. All the bodies, others in the ventricles, and others in the spirits, as many as I have seen, which are thousmall gland, some in every part; but in this case sands and thousands, have been seen by me altothey conceive of a vital principle such as is com-gether as men, and some of them have said that mon to every living thing: from which it is evi- they are men as in the world, and have added, dent, that nothing is known concerning the soul, that in the life of the body they had not the least and this is the reason why all that has been as- belief that it would be so; many have expressed serted on the subject is conjectural. And because concern, that mankind are in such ignorance conit was impossible thus to form any idea respecting cerning their state after death, and that they think the soul, very many could not otherwise believe, so vainly and emptily concerning the soul, and than that the soul is nothing else than something that most persons, who have thought more deeply vital, which, when the body dies, is dissipated; on the subject, have made the soul into somewhat and hence it is that the learned have less belief in as it were a subtile aerial, which idea must needs a life after death than the simple, and because they lead into that insane error, that it is dissipated do not believe in it, neither can they believe in the after death.-A. C. 6053, 6054. things which are of that life, which are the celestial and spiritual things of faith and love; this is also evident from the Lord's words in Matthew: "Thou hast hid these things from the wise and intelligent, and hast revealed them unto infants," What the Soul is. That an 589. Whoever duly considers the subject, may know that the body does not think, because it is material, but that the soul thinks, because it is spiritual. The soul of man, concerning the immortality of which many have written, is his spirit, |