We are all spirits inwardly. This is what's alive in the body, not the body on its own.
The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.
The Lord casts no one down in Hell, but the spirit casts himself hither.
It can in no sense be said that heaven is outside of any one; it is within ... and a man, also, so far as he receives heaven, is a recipient, a heaven, and an angel.
The activity of love and faith is what makes heaven.
So far as the Angels are recipients of that spiritual heat and light they are loves and wisdoms, not loves and wisdoms for themselves, but from the Lord.