Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 9110

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9110. The same experience also proved that the natural man cannot enter, that is, cannot come up into the spiritual man. But when a person who has faith and consequently leads a spiritual life is engaged in thought, the spiritual man comes down into - that is, it engages in thought within - the natural man. For influx, when it takes place, is spiritual; that is, it passes from the spiritual world into the natural world, but not vice versa. Physical influx is altogether contrary to order and unnatural, thus is impossible, see 3721, 5119, 5259, 5779, 6322, 8237. This explains why, when the natural man separated from the internal comes into a sphere of spiritual life, he is seized first with blindness, then with insanity, and finally with agony. So it is also that those in hell do not dare to look towards heaven, 4225, 4226, 8137, 8265, 8945, 8946.


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