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5.0 out of 5 stars
A philosophical look at the relation between soul and body, March 12, 2005
This review is from: The intercourse between the soul and the body: Which is supposed to take place either by physical influx or by spiritual influx or by pre-established harmony
This little booklet looks with a spiritual eye at the philosophical question of the relationship between the human soul and body.
Table of Contents
1. There are two worlds--the spiritual world, where spirits and angels are, and the natural world, where men are
2. The spiritual world existed and subsists from its own sun, and the natural world from its own sun
3. The sun of the spiritual world is pure love, from Jehovah God, Who is in the midst of it
4. From that sun proceeds heat and light, and the heat proceeding from it is in its essence love, and the light from it is in its essence wisdom
5. Both the heat and the light flow into man--the heat into his will, where it produces the good of love, and the light into his understanding, where it produces the truth of wisdom
6. Those two, namely, heat and light, or love and wisdom, flow conjointly from God into the soul of man, and through this into his mind, its affections and thoughts, and from these into the senses, speech, and actions of the body
7. The sun of the natural world is pure fire, and by means of this sun the world of nature existed and subsists
8. Therefore everything which proceeds from this sun, regarded in itself, is dead
9. The spiritual clothes itself with the natural, as a man clothes himself with a garment
10. Spiritual things, thus clothed in a man, enable him to live a rational and moral man, thus a spiritually natural man
11. The reception of that influx is according to the state of love and wisdom in a man
12. The understanding in a man can be elevated into the light, that is into the wisdom, in which the angels of heaven are, according to the improvement of his reason; and in like manner his will can be elevated into the heat of heaven, that is into love, according to the deeds of his life; but the love of the will is not elevated except so far as the man wills and does those things which the wisdom of the understanding teaches
13. It is altogether otherwise with beasts
14. There are three degrees in the spiritual world, and three degrees in the natural world, hitherto unknown, according to which all influx takes place
15. Ends are in the first degree, causes in the second, and effects in the third
16. From these things it is plain what is the quality of spiritual influx from its origin to its effects
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