1339. For anything to be perfect, it must also put on a kind of body

I have spoken with souls about the fruits of faith, acts of charity, stressing that works of charity are a kind of body, whose soul is faith; and that nothing in the universe is perfect unless it also relates to something like a body. I also said that there is nothing in human life that does not resemble the human being, nor in the whole of heaven, where the heaven of spirits, as well as each spirit individually, represents a body. So it is in other cases. 1748, 14 March.

I added that the body regarded in itself is nothing in respect to the soul but something obedient and servile, and consequently, the obedient and servile body contains the prior elements, as if it were the soul.