AC 4652 - Thought and Speech

AC 4652

The thought of a person who is speaking
is nothing but the speech of his spirit,
and the perception of the speech
is nothing but the hearing of his spirit.
When a person is speaking,
his thought does not indeed appear to him as speech,
because it conjoins itself
with the speech of his body,
and is in it;
and when a person hears,
his perception appears merely like hearing in the ear.
This is the reason why most persons
who have not reflected
know no otherwise
than that all sense is in the organs of the body,
and consequently
that when these organs fall to decay by death,
nothing of sense survives,
whereas the person (that is, his spirit)
then comes into his truest life of sensation.