Still the man does not die; he is
only separated from the bodily part which was of use to him in the
world. The man himself lives. He lives, because he is man by virtue,
not of the body, but of the spirit; for it is the spirit in man which
thinks; and thought together with affection makes the man. It is
plain, then, that when a man dies, he only passes from one world into
the other.... The spirit of man after separation remains awhile in the
body, but not after the motion of the heart has entirely ceased. This
takes place with a variation according to the diseased condition of
which the man dies. As soon as the motion ceases, the man is
resuscitated. This is done by the Lord alone.
--_Heaven and Hell, nn._ 445, 447
UNHURT BY DEATH
When a man passes from the natural world into the spiritual, he takes
with him everything that belongs to him as a man except his earthly
body. (This he leaves when he dies, nor does he ever resume it.[A]) He
is in a body as he was in the natural world; and to all appearance
there is no difference. But his body is spiritual, and is therefore
separated or purified from things terrestrial.
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