and about the Lord, yea, neither do they will these latter things.—Heavenly Arcana, 10429.
What any one does from love, remains inscribed on his heart, for love is the fire of life, thus is the life of every one; hence such as the love is, such is the life, and such as the life is, such is the whole man as to soul and as to body.—Heavenly Arcana, 10740.
The soul, of which it is said that it shall live after death, is nothing but the man himself, who lives in the body; that is, it is the interior man, who by the body acts in the world, and enables the body to live.
The commerce of the soul with the body is the communication of the spiritual things of heaven with the natural things of the world, and the communication is effected by influx, and is according to conjunction. This communication, which is effected by influx, according to conjunction, is at this day unknown, because all things are attributed to nature, and nothing is known of the spiritual, which at this day is so remote, that, when it is thought of, it appears as nothing.—Heavenly Arcana, 6054, 6057.
There are two principles in the Lord, namely, love and wisdom, and those two principles proceed from Him; and inasmuch as man was created to be a likeness and image of Him, a likeness by love, and an image by wisdom, therefore with man there are created two receptacles, one for love and the other for wisdom; the receptacle of love is what is called the will, and the receptacle of wisdom is what is called the understanding: man knows that those two [receptacles] appertain to him, but he does not know that they are so conjoined as they are in the Lord, with this difference, that in the Lord they are life, but in man the receptacles of life.
CORRESPONDENCE
The receptacles of love and of wisdom, first exist with man at his conception and birth; from them by a con-
