lost. Every state from infancy even to extreme old age not only
_remains_ in another life, but also returns. Returning, these states
are such as they were during a man's abode in the world. Not only the
goods and truths, stored up in the memory, remain and return, but
likewise all the states of innocence and charity; and when states of
evil and the false, or of wickedness and phantasy recur, these latter
states are attempered by the former through the Divine operation of
the Lord.

--_Arcana Coelestia, n._ 561


PRAYER

"O Thou who hearest prayer;
Unto Thee shall all flesh come."

--_Psalm_, LXV, 2

Prayer, in itself considered, is speech with God. There is then some
inward view of the objects of the prayer, and answering to that
something like an influx into the perception or thought. Thus there is
a kind of opening of the man's interiors toward God, with a difference
according to the man's state and according to the nature of the object
of the prayer. If one prays out of love and faith and only about and
for things heavenly and spiritual, then there appears in the prayer
something like revelation, which shows itself in the affection of the
suppliant, in hope, solace, or an inner gladness.

--_Arcana Coelestia, n._ 2535