{Footnote 1} There are as many degrees of life in man as there are heavens, and they are opened after death in accordance with his life (n. 3747, 9594).  Heaven is in man (n. 3884).  Men who are living a life of love and charity have in them angelic wisdom, although it is for the time hidden, but they come into that wisdom after death (n. 2494).  The man who receives from the Lord the good of love and of faith is called in the Word an angel (n. 10528).

315.  Moreover, any one who has been taught about Divine order can understand that man was created to become an angel, because the outmost of order is in him (n. 304), in which what pertains to heavenly and angelic wisdom can be brought into form and can be renewed and multiplied.  Divine order never stops midway to form there a something apart from an outmost, for it is not in its fullness and completion there; but it goes on to the outmost; and when it is in its outmost it takes on its form, and by means there collected it renews itself and produces itself further, which is accomplished through procreations.  Therefore the seed-ground of heaven is in the outmost.

316.  The Lord rose again not as to His spirit alone but also as to His body, because when He was in the world He glorified His whole Human, that is, made it Divine; for His soul which He had from the Father was of Itself the very Divine, while His body became a likeness of the soul, that is, of the Father, thus also Divine.  This is why He, differently from any man, rose again as to both;{1} and this He made manifest to the disciples (who when they saw Him believed that they saw a spirit), by saying: 

     See My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself; handle Me
     and see, for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye
     behold Me having (Luke 24:36-39);

indicating thereby that He was a man both in respect to His spirit and in respect to His body.

  {Footnote 1} Man rises again only as to his spirit (n. 10593,
  10594).  The Lord alone rose again in respect also to His body
  (n. 1729, 2083, 5078, 10825).

317.  That it might be made clear that man lives after death and enters in accordance with his life in the world either into heaven or into hell, many things have been disclosed to me about the state of man after death, which will be presented in due order in the following pages, where the world of spirits is treated of.

318.  XXXVI.  The heathen, or peoples outside of the church, in heaven.