DLW 390
(7) The conjunction of a person's spirit with the body
is due to the correspondence
of his will and intellect with his heart
and lungs,
and their disjunction
to the absence of that correspondence.
Since a person's
spirit possesses
a pulse and respiration just as the body does,
it
follows therefore
that there is a like correspondence
of the pulse and
respiration of a person's spirit
with the pulse and respiration of his
body,
for the mind, as we said, is his spirit.
Consequently, when the
correspondence
of these two motions ceases,
a separation takes place,
which is death.
In short, the life of a person's body depends on
the
correspondence of its pulse and respiration
with the pulse and
respiration of his spirit,
and when that correspondence ceases,
the life
of the body ceases,
and his spirit departs
and continues its life in
the spiritual world,
a life which is so like his life in the natural
world
that he does not know he has died.
DLW 391-392
It is apparent from this also
that the conjunction of the spirit and
body in a person
is due to the correspondence
of their two cardiac
motions and pulmonary motions.
The reason these two motions,
the cardiac and the pulmonary,
occur
and continue is that the entire angelic heaven,
both in general and in
particular,
possesses these two motions of life.
The entire angelic
heaven possesses them
because the Lord infuses them from the sun
where
He is and which emanates from Him.
For that sun engenders these two
motions
from the Lord.
Moreover, because all the constituents
of heaven
and the world
descend in succession from the Lord
through that sun in
such a nexus and form,
like the links of a chain
from the first to the
lasts of them,
and because the life of love and wisdom
originates from
Him,
and all the forces of the universe spring from life,
it is apparent
that the origin of these motions
lies nowhere else.
It follows that the varying of these motions
occurs in accordance with
the reception of love and wisdom.
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