The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Church Concerning Angels and Spirits Attendant on Man, and Concerning Influx, and the Commerce of the Soul With the Body.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829. Excerpt: ... but that one exists and subsists from another; also that when an inferior or exterior form is dissolved, the superior or interior form still lives. It was further said, that all operations of the mind are variations of the form, which variations in the purer substances are in such perfection as cannot be described; and that the ideas of thought are nothing else; and that these variations exist according to changes of the state of the affections. How the most perfect variations are given in the purer forms, may be concluded from the lungs, which fold themselves variously, and vary their forms, according to every expression of speech, and to every note of a tune, and to every motion of the body, and also to singular the states of thought and affection: what then must be the case with interior things, which, in comparison with so large an organ, are in the most perfect state. The philosopher confirmed what was said, and declared, that such things had been known to him when he lived in the world; and that the world should apply things philosophical to such uses, and not be intent upon bare forms of expression, and on disputes about them, and thus labour in the dust. 6327. The subject is continued at n. 6466. 6466. At the close of the preceding chapters it was shown, that each life appertaining to man, viz. the life of his thought and the life of his will, flows-in from heaven, and this by the angels and spirits who are attendant upon him; but by flowing-in from heaven is to be understood, that it is through heaven from the Lord. For the all of life appertaining to the angels is from the Lord; which they themselves unanimously confess, being also in the perception that it is so. And inasmuch as the all of life appertaining to the angels is from the Lord, the a...