tate
like that of angels, and also raised up into heaven to them, and being
then out of the body in spirit, I talked with angels with a respiration
in like manner as in the world. From this and other personal evidence it
has been made clear to me that man's spirit respires, not only in the body
but also after it has left the body; that the respiration of the spirit is
so silent as not to be perceptible to man; and that it inflows into the
manifest respiration of the body almost as cause flows into effect, or
thought into the lungs and through the lungs into speech. From all this
it is also evident that conjunction of spirit and body in man is by means
of the correspondence of the cardiac and pulmonic movement in both.

392. These two movements, the cardiac and the pulmonic, derive their
origin and persistence from this, that the whole angelic heaven, in
general and in particular, is in these two movements of life; and the
whole angelic heaven is in these movements because the Lord pours them
in from the sun, where He is, and which is from Him; for these two
movements are maintained by that sun from the Lord. It is evident that
such is their origin since all things of heaven and all things of the
world depend on the Lord through that sun in a connection, by virtue of
form, like a chain-work from the first to outmosts, also since the life
of love and wisdom is from the Lord, and all the forces of the universe
are from life. That the variation of these movements is according to the
reception of love and wisdom, also follows.

393. More will be said in what follows of the correspondence of these
movements, as what the nature of that correspondence is in those who
respire with heaven, and what it is in those who respire with hell; also
what it is in those who speak with heaven, but think with hell, thus what
it is with hypocrites, flatterers, deceivers, and others.

394. FROM THE CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HEART WITH THE WILL AND OF THE LUNGS
WITH THE UNDERSTANDING, EVERYTHING MAY BE KNOWN THAT CAN BE KNOWN ABOUT
THE WILL AND UNDERSTANDING, OR ABOUT LOVE AND WISDOM, THEREFORE ABOUT THE
SOUL OF MAN.

Many in the learned world have wearied themselves with inquiries
respecting the soul; but as they knew nothing of the spiritual world,
or of man's state after death, they could only frame theories, not about
the nature of the soul, but about its operation on the body. Of the
nature of the soul they could have no idea except as some