AC 3726 - what the soul (or spirit) is

AC 3726 [4]
Spirits themselves are forms, that is,
they consist, as much as people do,
of a whole combination of forms.
But those forms consist of purer substances
not visible to the sight of the body, that is, of the eye.
Now because those forms or substances
are not visible to the eye of the body
mankind today inevitably conceives
of knowledges and thoughts as mere abstractions.
This is also the reason for the insanity of our times,
in that people do not believe
that they have a spirit within them
which will live after the body has died -
yet the spirit is a substance far more real
than the material substance constituting the body.
Indeed, if you can believe it,
following its release from bodily things
the spirit is the purified body itself . . ..
The fact that spirits, or what amounts to the same, souls,
are endowed with a body,
see one another in broad daylight,
talk to one another, hear one another,
and actually have far keener senses
than when they were in the body or the world . . ..