AC 6003 - "God"; AC 6007 - To Be Elevated; AC 6008 - Earthly & Spiritual Bodies

AC 6003 - "God"

In the original tongue,
"God" is named in the first place in the singular,
but in the second place in the plural;
that is, in the first the name is "El,"
and in the second it is "Elohim."
The reason is that by "God" in the first place
is meant that there is one God and only one,
and by "God" in the second place
that He has many attributes.
Thus arises the name "Elohim" or "God" in the plural,
as in the Word almost everywhere.
As there are many attributes,
and the Ancient Church assigned a name to each,
therefore its descendants,
with whom the knowledge of such things was lost,
believed there were many gods,
and each family chose one of them for its God --
as Abraham, Shaddai,
and Isaac, the God who was called "Pachad" or "Dread."
And as the God of each was one of the Divine attributes,
therefore the Lord said unto Abram,
"I am God Shaddai" (Gen. 17:1),
and here unto Jacob, "I am the God of thy father."

AC 6007 - To Be Elevated

To be elevated toward more interior things
is to think more interiorly,
and at last as a spirit and as an angel;
for the more interiorly thought proceeds,
the more perfect it is,
because it is nearer
the influx of truth and good from the Lord.

AC 6008 - Earthly & Spiritual Bodies

. . . when a person dies,
he does not die,
but only lays aside the body
which had served him for use in the world,
and he passes into the other life
in a body which serves him for use there.