lowest natural men, who are incapable of thinking above the appearances
and fallacies of the bodily senses. After death they are in hell.

250. As it is unknown in the world what the spiritual man is, and what
the natural, and as by many he who is merely natural is called spiritual,
and conversely, these subjects shall be separately discussed, as follows:

(1) What the natural man is, and what the spiritual man.

(2) The character of the natural man in whom the spiritual degree is
opened.

(3) The character of the natural man in whom the spiritual degree is not
opened and yet not closed.

(4) The character of the natural man in whom the spiritual degree is
entirely closed.

(5) Lastly, The nature of the difference between the life of a man
merely natural and the life of a beast.

251. (1) What the natural man is, and what the spiritual man. Man is not
man from face and body, but from understanding and will; therefore by
the natural man and the spiritual man is meant that man's understanding
and will are either natural or spiritual. The natural man in respect to
his understanding and will is like the natural world, and may be called
a world or microcosm; and the spiritual man in respect to his
understanding and will is like the spiritual world, and may be called
a spiritual world or heaven. From which it is evident that as the natural
man is in a kind of image a natural world, so he loves those things which