When God breathed the breath of life into man, making him a living soul, was this a temporary gift enabling a human being to live only a temporal existence? Swedenborg shows us that, although we are finite beings, because we are spiritual creations, we were given life by the Lord to live to eternity. What happens after the death of the body? What is the nature of the spiritual life that we will live in the spiritual world? These are questions that have perplexed the minds of all human beings, even those who believe in an "afterlife", but who don't have any real understanding of what it is. Swedenborg gives clear answers about the spiritual nature of our lives in this world and the lives we will live to eternity.