AE 329 - flesh and blood

AE 329 [15]

    [15] There are also two things with a person
which constitute his spiritual life,
namely, the good of love and the truth of faith;
the will is the receptacle
of the good of love with him,
and the understanding is the receptacle
of the truth of faith with him.
All things of the mind,
that is, of the will and understanding,
have a correspondence with all things of the body,
wherefore, the latter are moved
at the command of the former.
The correspondence of the will
is in general with the flesh,
and the correspondence of the understanding
is with the blood:
so it is that man's voluntary proprium
is meant in the Word by flesh,
 and the intellectual proprium by blood;
as in Matthew 16:17:

"Jesus said to Simon, Blessed are you,
for flesh and blood has not revealed it unto you."

These things are adduced,
that it may be known that in the Word
things voluntary and intellectual, thus spiritual,
are meant by flesh and blood,
where they are said of man,
and things Divine where they are said of the Lord.
But these observations are intended for those
whose minds can be elevated
above natural ideas and can see causes.