EU 123 - Spirit and Body

EU 123

. . . a person is a spirit as to his interiors,
the body which he carries about in the world
only serving him for performing functions
in this natural or terrestrial sphere,
which is the ultimate.
But it is granted to no one
to speak as a spirit with angels and spirits,
unless he be such
that he can consociate with angels
as to faith and love;
nor can he so consociate,
unless he has faith and love to the Lord;
for a person is joined to the Lord
by faith and love to Him, that is,
by truths of doctrine and goods of life from Him;
and when he is conjoined to the Lord,
he is secure
from the assaults of evil spirits from hell.
With others the interiors cannot be so far opened,
since they are not in the Lord.