AC 3492 - old age

AC 3492
. . . in the Word "old age" signifies
both the putting off of a former state,
and the putting on of a new one;
and this for the reason that old age is the last of age,
when corporeal things begin to be put off,
and with them the loves of the preceding age,
and thus when the interiors begin to be enlightened,
for these are enlightened when corporeal things are removed;
and also because the angels,
who perceive in a spiritual manner
the things that are in the Word,
have no longer any idea of any old age,
but instead of it an idea of new life . . ..