also be known that his earthly body is formed to serve the
understanding and the will in the world, and to skillfully accomplish
their uses in the outmost sphere of nature. For this reason the body
by itself can do nothing, but is moved always in entire subservience
to the bidding of the understanding and will, even to the extent that
whatever a man thinks he speaks with his tongue and lips, and
whatever he wills he does with his body and limbs, and thus the
understanding and the will are what act, while the body by itself
does nothing. Evidently, then, the things of the understanding and
will are what make man; and as these act into the minutest
particulars of the body, as what is internal into what is external,
they must be in a like form, and on this account man is called an
internal or spiritual man. Heaven is such a man in its greatest and
most perfect form.


61. Such being the angelic idea of man, the angels give no thought to
what a man does with his body, but only to the will from which the
body acts. This they call the man himself, and the understanding they
call the man so far as it acts in unison with the will.{1}

{Footnote 1} The will of man is the very being [esse] of his
life, and his understanding is the outgo [existere] of his life
therefrom (n. 3619, 5002, 9282). The chief life of man is the
life of his will, and from that the life of the understanding
proceeds (n. 585, 590, 3619, 7342, 8885, 9282, 10076, 10109,
10110). Man is man by virtue of his will and his understanding
therefrom (n. 8911, 9069, 9071, 10076, 10109, 10110).