Marriage Index 2 (Whitehead) n. 24

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24. MAN (Homo).

Love and wisdom in form are man; and a man is a recipient of this; which is called an image (5).

After death a male is a male, and a female is a female; the sex cannot be changed (6 [CL 32, 33]).

A man lives a man after death, but a spiritual man (22, 23 [CL 28]).

There would be a more miserable state for man after death than for a beast, if he were to be a breath, floating in the universe, or kept in somewhere (pu) even till the Last Judgment; but for him who lives well, a happier state after death has been provided (24 [CL 29]).

A man lives a man after death; from personal observation (illustrated, 25 [CL 28]).

Man feels that to be his own which inflows from the Lord; and by this means there is conjunction (40 [CL 122]).

Man is an image and an organ of the Lord's love and wisdom (43). The Lord's influx with man (51). (See INFLUX.)

The inmosts of man, which are of his soul, are turned upwards to the Lord; the lower parts are turned to the world; and the lowest to himself: and in consequence of this, man feels that which inflows as if it were in himself (?).

How man becomes rational; and how will and understanding, or love and wisdom, are conjoined in him: also that thus he can receive love truly conjugial (75e).

Distinction between beasts and men, from influx and the reception of it (75 [CL 134]).


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