AE 658 - what one sees; AE 659 - "to be buried"

AE 658

. . . every one sees the things that are of the Lord,

and thus of heaven and the church,

according to what his state is . . ..

AE 659

. . . "to be buried"

signifies in the Word awakening into life and resurrection,

because when a man dies and is buried

he is awakened or rises again into eternal life.

For after death a man continues to live equally as in the world,

but he lays aside the earthly or material body,

which served him for use in the natural world,

and continues his life in a spiritual body.

Burial, therefore, is only the rejection, as it were,

of the natural body that he carried about in the natural world.

Burial signifies awakening into eternal life or resurrection,

because the angels do not know

what the death of a man is nor what his burial is,

since with them there is no death and therefore no burial,

but they perceive all things spiritually;

when, therefore, the death of a man is mentioned in the Word,

instead of death

they perceive his passing over from one world into another;

and where burial is mentioned

they perceive his resurrection into life.