remains fixed.4 Our love/mental life ever afterwards is determined by the
correspondence between our spirit and that form.
Our Natural Memory
The ultimate form of our spirit is often associated with our natural
memory. The ideas associated with this memory are often called “material
ideas.” The memory itself is not material, but is closely connected to the states
we experience in the material body. Our external memory ceases to change
once we have left the body. About this memory we read in Swedenborg’s
journal, Spiritual Experiences:
How it is to be understood that as a tree falls,5 it remains [in the t