Afterlife: A Guided Tour of Heaven and Its Wonders - Swedenborg ...

AFTERLIFE
faces, eyes, ears, chests, arms, hands, and feet. They see
each other, hear each other, and talk to each other. In
short, they lack nothing that belongs to humans except
that they are not clothed with a material body. I have seen
them in their own light, which is far, far greater than
noonday on our earth, and in that light I have seen all the
details of their faces more crisply and clearly than I have
seen the faces of people here in the world.
I have also been allowed to see an angel of the central
heaven. His face was more glorious, more radiant, than
that of angels of the lower heavens. I looked at him very
closely, and he had a human form in full perfection.
Some honest spirits I talked with about this were dis -
tressed at heart that there was such ignorance in the
church about the state of heaven and about spirits and
angels. They kept insisting that I should take back the
message that they were not formless minds or ethereal
breath but human in form, and that they saw and heard
and felt just as much as people in this world do.
Owing to the Lord’s Divine Human, Heaven,
in Its Entirety and in Its Parts, Reflects a
Person
This conclusion—that it is owing to the Lord’s divine
human that heaven, in its entirety and in its parts, reflects
a person—follows from all the things that have been
presented [elsewhere]: (1) the Lord is God of heaven; (2)
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