SS68.人与天使的联系通过圣言的属世意义或字义建立的另一个原因是：每个人凭借创造都拥有生命的三个层级在里面，即：属天层、属灵层和属世层。只要人还在这个世界上，他就处于属世层级，同时照着他处于纯正真理的程度而处于属灵层级，照着他专注于符合这些真理的生活程度而处于属天层级。然而，他在死亡之前，仍不会进入属灵或属天层本身。对此，别处会有详述。
68. Another reason our companionship with angels is established through the earthly or literal meaning of the Word is that by virtue of our creation each of us has three levels of life - heavenly, spiritual, and earthly. As long as we are in this world we are focused on the earthly level, then on the spiritual level to the extent that we are intent on genuine truths, and then on the heavenly level to the extent that we are devoted to living by these truths. We do not, however, gain full access to that spiritual or heavenly level until after death. But there is more on this elsewhere.
68. Another reason for people’s affiliation with angels through the Word’s natural or literal sense is that every person has in him from creation three degrees of life — celestial, spiritual and natural. However, as long as he lives in the world a person is in the natural degree, and in the spiritual degree then to the extent he is governed by genuine truths, and in the celestial degree to the extent he lives a life in accordance with them. Yet it is still only after death that he enters actually into the spiritual or celestial degree.
But more on this subject elsewhere.
68. The association of man with angels is effected by the natural or literal sense of the Word, also because in every man from creation there are three degrees of life, the celestial, the spiritual and the natural. A man, however, is in the natural degree as long as he continues in this world. He is also in the spiritual degree only so far as he is in genuine truths, and in the celestial degree only so far as his life is in accordance with those truths. Still, he does not actually enter the spiritual or celestial degree itself until after death. But more will be said on this subject elsewhere.
68. Another reason why association of man with angels exists by means of the natural or literal sense of the Word is that in every man from creation there are three degrees of life - celestial, spiritual, and natural - but so long as he is in this world he is in the natural, and is at the same time in the spiritual insofar as he is in genuine truths, and in the celestial insofar as he is in a life according to them; but still he does not come into the spiritual or celestial itself until after death. But of this more elsewhere.
68. Quod consociatio hominis cum angelis sit per Sensum naturalem seu litteralem Verbi, est quoque, quia in unoquovis homine ex creatione sunt tres gradus vitae, caelestis, spiritualis et naturalis; sed homo in naturali est, quamdiu est in mundo, et tunc tantum in spirituali quantum in genuinis veris est, et tantum in caelesti quantum in vita secundum illa est; at usque non venit in ipsum spirituale et caeleste quam post mortem. Sed de hac re plura alibi.