AE 1127 - A Man Becomes What a Man Is

AE 1127 [2, 3]

. . . a man who in the world
has been merely corporeal
and consequently stupid as to his life,
appears nevertheless
after the rejection of the material body
as a man in the spiritual world.
A man who as to his life in the world
has been merely sensual or natural,
thus who has known little about heaven
although much about the world,
nevertheless after death
appears as a man.
A man who as to his life in the world
has been rational,
and has thought rightly from natural light,
when after death he becomes a spirit
appears as a man.
A man who as to his life in the world
has been spiritual,
when after death he becomes an angel
appears as a man,
perfect in the measure of his reception
of life from the Lord.
A man in whom
the third degree of life has been opened,
thus who as to his life in the world
has been a celestial man,
when after death he becomes an angel
appears as a man in all perfection.


Life from the Lord is love and wisdom;
consequently such as the reception
of love and wisdom from the Lord is,
such is the man.