Arcana Coelestia volume 7 - Swedenborg Foundation

ARCANA COELESTIA 4003have about the grave is not an idea of death, but of life,consequently of resuscitation.CONTINUATION CONCERNING THECORRESPONDENCE WITH THE GRANDMAN; HERE CONCERNING THECORRESPONDENCE OF THE SKIN, THEHAIR, AND THE BONES THEREWITH5552. In regard to correspondence the case is this. The things inman which have the most life correspond to those societies in theheavens which have the most life and hence the most happinessthere, as do those to which man’s external and internal sensoriescorrespond, and the things of his understanding and will. But thethings in man which have less life correspond to such societies thereas are in less life, as the cuticles which invest the whole body, thecartilages and bones which support and hold together all the partsof the body, and also the hairs which grow out from the cuticles.What the societies are to which these correspond, and what is theirquality, is also to be told.5553. The societies to which the skins correspond are in theentrance to heaven, and to them is given a perception of the qualityof the spirits who throng to the first threshold, whom they eitherreject or admit; so that they may be called entrances or thresholdsto heaven.5554. There are very many societies that constitute the externalinteguments of the body, with differences from the face to the solesof the feet; for there are differences everywhere. I have spokenmuch with them. In regard to spiritual life they had been such thatthey suffered themselves to be persuaded by others that a thing isso; and when they heard it confirmed from the literal sense of theWord, they wholly believed it, and remained in the opinion, and