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 Lord, and that the resurrection is effected in this way.

The celestial augels who attend upon a resuscitated person, do not leave him, because they love every one. But if the spirit be of such a character that he can no longer continue in the company of celestial angels, he desires to depart from them. When this occurs, angels from the Lord's spiritual kingdom come to him, and give him the use of light; for before he saw nothing, but only thought.

I was also shown how this is done. Those angels seemed, as it were, to roll off the coat of the left eye toward the septum of the nose, that the eye might be opened and sight be given. This is merely an appearance, but the spirit perceives it as a reality. When the coat of the eye seems to have been rolled off, something lucid but indistinct appears, like what is seen through the eyelids on first awaking from sleep. This obscure light seemed to me of a skyblue color; but I was afterward told that the color varies with different persons.

After this, there is a sensation as if something were gently rolled off from the face, and this is succeeded by a state of spiritual thought. This rolling off from the face is also an appearance, whereby is represented the change from a state of natural to one of spiritual thought.

The angels are extremely careful to suppress any idea in the resuscitated person, which does not savor of love. They then tell him that he is a spirit.