Rational Psychology #486

By Emanuel Swedenborg

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486. XXXV. DEATH

What the body is, that is, the form of the body, has been set forth above [Fibre, no. 318], to wit, that the body consists of forms inferior in their order and consequently, is a form from the soul, which latter is a spiritual form. Thus there is a purer body and a grosser. The form of the soul is spiritual, that of the intellectory is celestial, that of the internal sensory is vertical, that of the external sensory or cerebrum is spiral, and that of its appendix which is the body, properly so called, circular. Its bones, cartilages and the like, are of the angular form, as also are the many elements which enter into and constitute the blood, in each globule whereof are 1 latent all the forms, from the first to the last.

Footnotes:

1. Reading latent for latet.

  
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