Arcana Coelestia volume 7 - Swedenborg Foundation

ARCANA COELESTIA 4107smallest and most invisible vessels, of which are composed the nextlarger ones, also invisible; for the vessels which are smallest of alland wholly invisible are continued from man’s interiors. Hencecomes the first and inmost obstruction, and hence the first andinmost vitiation into the blood. When this vitiation increases, itcauses disease, and finally death. If, however, man had lived a life ofgood, his interiors would be open into heaven, and through heavento the Lord; and so too would the very least and most invisible littlevessels (the traces of the first threads may be called little vessels, onaccount of the correspondence). In consequence man would bewithout disease, and would merely decline to extreme old age, evenuntil he became again a little child, but a wise one; and when thebody could no longer minister to his internal man or spirit, hewould pass without disease out of his earthly body into a body suchas the angels have, thus out of the world directly into heaven.5727. This is the end of the subject of correspondence. In thefollowing pages, at the close of the chapters, of the Lord’s Divinemercy I will speak of the spirits and angels with man; then ofinflux, and of the interaction of the soul with the body; andafterward of the inhabitants of other earths.