THE RESURRECTION (pt. 1)

The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Emanuel Swedenborg
• Doctrinal Series •
THE RESURRECTION
(pt. 1)

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Man is so created that as to his internal he cannot die; for he can believe in and also love God, and thus be conjoined to God by faith and love; and to be conjoined to God is to live to eternity.

This internal is with every man who is born; his external is that by which he brings into effect the things which are of his faith and love.

The internal is called the spirit, and the external is called the body.

The external, which is called the body, is accommodated to the uses in the natural world, this is rejected when man dies; but the internal, which is called the spirit, is accommodated to the uses in the spiritual world, this does not die. This internal is then a good spirit and an angel, if the man had been good in the world; but an evil spirit if man had been evil in the world.

(The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 223-224)