An angel, and who is in all completeness a man, but a spiritual man.
The material form that is added and superinduced in the world, is not a
human form
by itself, but only by virtue of the spiritual form, to which it is
added and superinduced that man may be enabled to perform
uses in the natural world, and also to draw to himself out of the purer
substances of the world a fixed containant
of spiritual things, and thus continue and perpetuate life. It is a
truth of angelic
wisdom that man's mind, not alone in general,
but in every particular, is in a perpetual conatus toward the human
form, for the reason that God is a Man. 389. That man may be man there
must
be no part lacking, either in head or in body, that has existence
in the complete man; since there
is nothing therein
that does not enter into the human form and
constitute it; for it is the form of love and wisdom, and this, in
itself considered, is Divine. In it are all terminations
of love and wisdom,
which in God-Man are infinite, but in His image, that is, in man,
angel, or spirit, are finite. If any part that has existence
in man were lacking, there would be lacking something of
termination from
the love and wisdom corresponding to it, whereby the Lord might be from
firsts in outmosts with man, and might from His Divine Love through His
Divine Wisdom provide uses in the created world. 390. (7) The
conjunction of man's spirit with his body is by means of the
correspondence of his will and understanding with his heart and lungs,
and their separation is from non- correspondence. As it has heretofore
been unknown that man's mind, by which is meant the will and
understanding, is his spirit, and that the spirit is a man; and as it
has been unknown that man's spirit, as well as his body, has a pulse
and respiration, it could not be known that the pulse and respiration
of the spirit in man flow into the pulse and respiration of his body
and produce them. Since, then, man's spirit, as well as his body,
enjoys a pulse and respiration, it fol
