ion of the heart has entirely ceased. This
takes place with a variation according to the diseased condition of
which the man dies. As soon as the motion ceases, the man is
resuscitated. This is done by the Lord alone.

--_Heaven and Hell, nn._ 445, 447

UNHURT BY DEATH

When a man passes from the natural world into the spiritual, he takes
with him everything that belongs to him as a man except his earthly
body. (This he leaves when he dies, nor does he ever resume it.[A]) He
is in a body as he was in the natural world; and to all appearance
there is no difference. But his body is spiritual, and is therefore
separated or purified from things terrestrial. And when what is
spiritual touches and sees what is spiritual, it is just the same as
when what is natural touches and sees what is natural.... A human
spirit also enjoys every sense, external and internal, which he
enjoyed in the world. He sees as before, hears and speaks as before,
smells and tastes as before, and feels when he is touched. He also
longs, desires, craves, thinks, reflects, is stirred, loves, wills, as
he did previously.... In a word, when a man passes from the one life
into the other, or from the one world into the other, it is as though
he had passed from one place to another; and he carries with him all
that he possesses in himself as a man. It cannot, then, be said, that
after death a man has lost anything that really belonged to him. He
carries his natural memory with him, too; for he retains all things
whatsoever which he has heard, seen, read, learned and thought in the
world, from earliest infancy even to the last of life.

--_Heaven and Hell, n._ 461

[Footnote A: Heavenly Doctrine, n. 225.]

THE WORLD OF SPIRITS

Every man at death comes first into the world of spirits, which is
midway between heaven and hell; and there he passes through his own
states, and is prepared either for heaven or for hell according to his
life.... It is to be observed that the world of spirits is one thing,
and the spiritual world another. The spiritual world embraces the
world of spirits and heaven and hell.

--_Divine Love and Wisdom, n._ 140

THE WAY OF ONE'S OWN LOVE

After death every one goes the way of his love--he who is in a good
love, to heaven, and he who is in a wicked love, to hell. Nor does he
rest until he is in that society where his ruling love is. What is
wonderful, every one knows the way.

Every one's state after death is spiri