Heaven and Hell - Swedenborg Foundation

HEAVEN AND HELL 359
what is material, while what is spiritual sees what is spiritual.
When, therefore, the material part of the eye becomes
darkened and is deprived of its cooperation with the spiritual,
the eye sees spirits in their own form, which is the human
form, not only the spirits that are in the spiritual world, but
also the spirit of another man while it is yet in its body.
454. The form of the spirit is the human form because man
is created in respect to his spirit in the form of heaven, for all
things of heaven and of the order of heaven are brought
together in the things that constitute the mind of man; 261
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from this comes his capacity to receive intelligence and
wisdom. Whether you say the capacity to receive intelligence
and wisdom or the capacity to receive heaven it is the same
thing, as can be seen from what has been shown about the light
and heat of heaven (n. 126–140); the form of heaven (n.
200–212); the wisdom of angels (n. 265–275); and in the
chapter that the form of heaven as a whole and in part reflects a
single man (n. 59–77); and this by virtue of the Divine human
of the Lord, which is the source of heaven and its form (n.
78–86).
455. That which has now been said can be understood by
the rational man, for he can see it from the connection of
causes and from truths in their order; but it is not understood
by a man who is not rational, and for several reasons, the chief
of which is that he has no desire to understand it because it is
opposed to the falsities that he has made his truths; and he that
is unwilling to understand for this reason has closed to his
rational faculty the way to heaven, although that way can still
be opened whenever the will’s resistance ceases (see above, n.
424). That man is able to understand truths and be rational
261. Man is the being into whom are brought together all things of
Divine order, and by creation he is Divine order in form (n. 4219, 4222,
4223, 4523, 4524, 5114, 6013, 6057, 6605, 6626, 9706, 10156, 10472).
So far as a man lives in accordance with Divine order he is seen in the
other life as a man, complete and beautiful (n. 4839, 6605, 6626).