are not
dejected. They know that with those who put their trust in the Divine,
all things work toward a happy state to eternity.

--_Arcana Coelestia, n._ 8478

THE SUFFERANCE OF EVIL

The chief aim and effort of the Lord's Divine Providence is that a man
shall be in what is good and in what is true at the same time; for
thereby man is man, since he is then an image of the Lord. But
because, in his life in the world, he can be in what is good and in
what is false at the same time, and also in what is evil and what is
true at the same time, nay, even in evil and at the same time in good,
and thus be a double man, as it were, and because this division
destroys God's image and so destroys the man, therefore the Lord's
Divine Providence in all its workings seeks to prevent this division.
Furthermore, because it is better for man to be in what is evil and in
the same time in what is false than to be in good and at the same time
in evil, therefore the Lord permits it; not as one willing it, but as
one unable to prevent it consistently with the end, which is
salvation.

--_Divine Providence, n._ 16

DEATH AND THE RESURRECTION

"I laid me down and slept:
I awaked: for the Lord sustained me."

--_Psalm,_ III, 5

"Now that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the
bush, when he called the Lord the God of Abraham, and the
God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob: for He is not a God of
the dead, but of the living; for to Him all are living."

--_Luke_, XX, 37, 38

IMMORTAL BY ENDOWMENT

Man has been so created that as to his inward being he cannot die; for
he can believe in God, and also love God, and thus be united to God in
faith and love; and to be united to God is to live to eternity.

--_Heavenly Doctrine, n._ 223

FROM WORLD TO WORLD

When the body is no longer able to perform its functions in the
natural world, a man is said to die. Still the man does not die; he is
only separated from the bodily part which was of use to him in the
world. The man himself lives. He lives, because he is man by virtue,
not of the body, but of the spirit; for it is the spirit in man which
thinks; and thought together with affection makes the man. It is
plain, then, that when a man dies, he only passes from one world into
the other.... The spirit of man after separation remains awhile in the
body, but not after the mot