hole. That there is such
reciprocal communion, and conjunction thereby, is clear from many things
in the body. For the same order prevails there as in a state, commonwealth,
or kingdom; the community has its existence from the individuals which are
its parts, and the parts or individuals have permanent existence from the
community. It is the same with every thing that has form, most of all in
man.

368. (5) Such as the love is, such is the wisdom, consequently such is
the man. For such as the love and wisdom are, such are the will and
understanding, since the will is the receptacle of love, and the
understanding of wisdom, as has been shown above; and these two make
the man and his character. Love is manifold, so manifold that its
varieties are limitless; as can be seen from the human race on the
earths and in the heavens. There is no man or angel so like another that
there is no difference. Love is what distinguishes; for every man is his
own love. It is supposed that wisdom distinguishes; but wisdom is from
love; it is the form of love; love is the esse of life, and wisdom is
the existere of life from that esse. In the world it is believed that
the understanding makes the man; but this is believed because the
understanding can be elevated, as was shown above, into the light of
heaven, giving man the appearance of being wise; yet so much of the
understanding as transcends, that is to say, so much as is not of the
love, although it appears to be man's and therefore to determine man's
character, is only an appearance. For so much of the understanding as
transcends is, indeed, from the love of knowing and being wise, but not
at the same time from the love of applying to life what man knows and is
wise in. Consequently, in the world it either in time passes away or
lingers outside of the things of memory in its mere borders as something
ready to drop off; and therefore after death it is separated, no more of
it remaining than is in accord with the spirit's own love. Inasmuch as
love makes the life of man, and thus the man himself, all societies of
heaven, and all angels in societies, are arranged according to affections
belonging to love, and no society nor any angel in a society according to
anything of the understanding separate from love. So likewise in the hells
and their societies, but in accordance with loves opposite to the heavenly
loves. From all this it can be seen that such as the love is such is the
wisdom, and