2994. For as long as anyone lives in the body he too is able to feel and perceive very little of all this, for the celestial and spiritual things present with him sink into the natural things within his external man where he loses any feeling or perception of them. Furthermore the representatives and correspondences which exist in his external man are such that they have a different appearance from the things to which they correspond in the internal man and which they represent. Consequently they cannot enter his awareness until he has become rid of those externals. Blessed at that time is the person with whom correspondence exists, that is, whose external man corresponds to the internal man.