DLW 386
(6) A person's mind is his spirit,
and the spirit is the person,
the body being the outward instrument
by which the mind or spirit senses
and acts
in the physical world.
DLW 388
. . . it can also be seen
that a
person's mind is the person himself.
For the first framework of the
human form,
or the human form itself,
with each and every one of its
constituents,
comes from its first elements
continued from the brain
through the nerves . . ..
This is the form
into which a person comes after death,
who
is then called a spirit or angel,
and who is in every measure of
perfection
a human being, only a spiritual one.
The material form
which
is added and superimposed in the world
is not the human form per se,
but
is its product,
being added and superimposed to enable
the person to
perform useful services
in the natural world,
and also to take with him
from the purer substances of the world
some fixed containing vessel
for
his spiritual constituents
and so continue and perpetuate his life.
. . . a person's mind possesses,
not only in
general but also in every particular,
a constant effort toward the
human form,
because God is human.
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