HH 445 & 447 - our life is our spirit and only the Lord can raise us up

HH 445
When the body
is no longer able to perform the bodily functions in the natural world
that correspond to the spirit's thoughts and affections,
which the spirit has from the spiritual world,
a person is said to die.
This takes place when the respiration of the lungs
and the beatings of the heart cease.
But the person does not die;
he is merely separated from the bodily part that was of use to him in the world,
while the person himself continues to live.
It is said that the person himself continues to live
since a person is not a person because of his body but because of his spirit,
for it is the spirit that thinks in a person,
and thought with affection is what constitutes a person.
Evidently, then, the death of a person
is merely his passing from one world into another.
And this is why in the Word in its internal sense
"death" signifies resurrection and continuation of life.

HH 447
After the separation
the spirit of a person continues in the body for a short time,
but only until the heart's action has wholly ceased,
which happens variously . . .
with some the motion of the heart continuing for some time,
with others not so long.
As soon as this motion ceases the person is resuscitated;
but this is done by the Lord alone.
Resuscitation means the drawing forth of the spirit from the body,
and its introduction into the spiritual world. . ..