485. THE DELIGHTS OF EVERYONE'S LIFE ARE CHANGED AFTER DEATH INTO THINGS THAT CORRESPOND TO THEM

It has been shown in the preceding section that the ruling affection or dominant love with everyone continues to eternity. It is now to be shown how the delights of that affection or love are changed into things that correspond. By being changed into corresponding things is meant into things spiritual that correspond to things natural. That they are changed into things spiritual can be confirmed from this, that so long as man is in his earthly body he is in the natural world, but when he leaves that body he comes into the spiritual world and puts on a spiritual body. That angels and men after death are in a complete human form, and that the bodies with which they are clothed are spiritual bodies see above, (73-77, 453-460); also what the correspondence is of spiritual things with natural (87-115).