AC 1718 - The External Person; AC 1726 - The Lord's Refreshing Peace

AC 1718

What the external person is,
is scarcely known at this day;
for it is thought
that only that which belongs to the body
constitutes the external person;
as the faculties of sense, namely,
the touch, taste, smell, hearing, and sight;
and also the appetites and pleasures.
But these constitute the outermost person,
which is merely corporeal.
The knowledges that belong to the memory,
and the affections that are of the love,
with which the person has been imbued,
properly constitute the external person;
also those faculties of sense
which properly belong to the spirit,
together with the pleasures that the spirit enjoys.
That these properly constitute
the external or exterior person,
is evident from people in the other life,
that is, spirits.
These in like manner possess an external person,
and in like manner an interior person,
and consequently an internal person.
The body is only as it were a covering, a crust,
which is dissolved
in order that the person may truly live,
and that all things belonging to him
may become more excellent.

AC 1726

In the original language "Salem"
means "peace," and also "perfection;"
thus it means a state of peace,
and a state of perfection.
A state of peace is the state of the Lord's kingdom;
in that state
the Lord's celestial and spiritual things
are as in their morning, and in their spring . . ..
When a person is in the combats of temptations,
he is by turns gifted by the Lord with a state of peace,
and is thus refreshed.
A state of peace is here signified by "Salem;"
and presently also by the "bread and wine,"
by which celestial and spiritual things are meant;
thus a state of celestial and spiritual things in peace,
which state is refreshment itself.