AC 10758 [3-4]
. . . when those who are in the faith
speak of the life after death,
and of their friends who are either dead
or dying,
and do not at the moment
think about the Last Judgment,
they
believe that their friends will live, or are living,
as people immediately
after their decease.
But the moment that there flows in the thought
of
the Last Judgment,
this idea is changed into a material idea
about their
earthly body,
that it is again to be joined with their soul.
For they
do not know
that in respect to his interiors every person is a spirit,
and
that it is this which lives in the body,
and not the body from itself;
and that the spirit of everyone
is that from which the body has its
human form,
consequently which is chiefly the person,
and in a like form,
but invisible before the eyes of the body,
yet visible before the eyes
of spirits.
And it is also from this
that when the sight of a person’s spirit is opened,
which is effected by
the removal of the sight of the body,
angels are seen as people;
as also did angels appear to the ancients
of whom we read in the Word.
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