For the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual world, that is, of the state of the church in the heavens, as well as in the earth; hence the Word is spiritual and Divine.
Emanuel SwedenborgWe are all spirits inwardly. This is what's alive in the body, not the body on its own.
Emanuel SwedenborgThe quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil
Emanuel Swedenborg