Angelic wisdom concerning the divine love and wisdom

Abstract

Abstract things, being universals, are often better comprehended than things applied (n. 228). Abuse. Abuse of rationality and freedom (n. 607). Aconites. Origin of aconites (n. 339). Acts. Acts of the body contain in them all the prior things from which they exist (n. 277, 278). Action and Reaction. Action derives its esse from love, its quality from intelligence (n. 406). In life alone there is action; reaction is caused by the action of life (n. 68). In things greatest and least of the universe, both living and dead, there is action and reaction (n. 263). Without reaction, action would cease (n. 260). The equilibrium of all things is from action and reaction (n. 68, 263). Adam. (See n. 287, 325). Errors respecting Adam (n. 117, 269). Adoration and worship flow from softening of the heart and humiliation (n. 335). Affection. Affection a determination of love (n. 410). Is of the will, because it is of love (n. 372). Arises from Divine love (n. 33). Affection and thought are possible only by means of atmospheres purer than air (n. 176). From affection for knowing springs affection for truth; from affection for understanding springs perception of truth; and from affection for seeing truth springs thought (n. 404). Affection is related to thought as the tone is to speech (n. 372). Affection is not perceived except by something pleasant in thinking, speaking, and acting, which is not noticed (n. 364). Affection, thought, and action, are in a series of discrete degrees (n. 214). Affections, which are of love, appear imaged forth in the face; and thoughts, which are of wisdom, are revealed in a kind of sparkle of the eyes (n. 365). Thoughts, perceptions and affections are substances and forms, not entities abstracted from real and actual substance or form (n. 42); are not possible outside of their subjects, but are states of subjects (n. 209, 224, 291). All operations of love or the will outside of the understanding have relation not to affections for truth, but to affections for good (n. 404). Affections of love correspond to the blood (n. 423). See Thought. Air. Air is the lowest of the three atmospheres (n. 176). Its pressure and action on the body (n. 176). All-providing. It can to some extent be seen and comprehended how God can be all-providing (n. 21). Anatomy. Confirmations drawn from the anatomy of the brain (n. 366); of the heart (n. 399); of the embryo (n. 401). Conjunction of the DIVINE LOVE AND WISDOM 257 heart with the lungs (n. 403, 408); structure of the lungs (n. 405, 412); respiration of the lungs (n. 408); operations of the heart (n. 410); arteries, veins, and air vessels (n. 412); purification and nourishment of the blood (n. 420). (See also n. 365, 373.) Angel. Love and wisdom are what make the angel, and these two are the Lord’s; angels are angels from the Lord, and not from what is their own (n. 114). Angels equally with men, have an internal and an external (n. 87). They breathe, speak, and hear in the spiritual world just as men do in the natural world (n. 176). They have each and all things that men have on earth (n. 135). They appear in the place where their thought is (n. 285). All that appears around them is produced or created from them (n. 322). The angel of heaven and the man of the church act as one through conjunction (n. 118). How angels speak with man (n. 257). The joy of the wisdom of angels is to communicate to others what they know (n. 432). Angelic. The very angelic state is the reception of love and wisdom in equal measure (n. 102). The very angelic of heaven is Love Divine and Wisdom Divine (n. 114). Animal Kingdom. Forms of uses in this kingdom (n. 316). Relation to man in each and all things of the animal kingdom (n. 61). Animalcules. Noxious animalcules, their origin (n. 341–343) Animals. Their origin, and how they are produced (n. 340, 346, 351). There are in them degrees of both kinds (n. 225). Marvelous things in their instinct (n. 60, 61). The knowledge possessed by animals implanted in them (n. 134). Waves of effluvia continually flow forth from animals (n. 293). The animals which appear in the spiritual world are mere correspondences (n. 339). Antipodes. Those in the hells compared to the antipodes (n. 275). Aorta. (See n. 405, 412, 413, 415). Appearances. Appearances are the first things out of which the human mind forms its understanding, and can be shaken off only by the exploration of the cause (n. 40). So long as appearances remain appearances they are apparent truths; but when they are accepted as real truths they become falsities and fallacies (n. 108). Effect of speaking from appearances (n. 349). (See also n. 7, 10, 73, 109, 110, 113, 125, 363.) Appetites. Appetites are derivations from love or the will (n. 363). Arcana. Arcana concerning the Lord (n. 221, 223); the Word (n. 221); the natural mind in man (n. 257); the sun of the spiritual world (n. 294). Arms. In the Word, arms signify power (n. 220). The right arm has reference to the good of truth, the left to the truth of good (n. 384, 409). Arteries. Pulsation of the arteries with spirits and angels (n. 391). Bronchial and pulmonary arteries (n. 405, 407, 412, 413, 420). Arteries correspond to affections, and in the lungs to affections for truth (n. 412, 420). DIVINE LOVE AND WISDOM 258 Ascension. Threefold ascension of degrees of height (n. 235). There are six degrees of ascent, namely, three in the natural, and three in the spiritual world (n. 66, 67). Ashur, Assyria. In the Word, Ashur or Assyria signifies the church in respect to intelligence (n. 325). Atheists. Those who become atheists (n. 349). Their condition in the spiritual world (n. 357). Atmospheres. Atmospheres are receptacles and containers of heat and light (n. 183, 191, 296, 299). There are atmospheres in the spiritual world, just as in the natural world only the former are spiritual, while the latter are natural (n. 173, 178). Both are divided substances or least forms (n. 174). Difference between spiritual and natural atmospheres (n. 175). The atmospheres in both worlds, in their outmosts, close into substances and matters such as are in the earth (n. 302–304). Respiration, speech, and hearing are effected by means of a lowest atmosphere which is called air; sight is possible only by means of an atmosphere purer than air; thought and affection are not possible except by means of still purer atmosphere (n. 176). All things belonging to the bodies of spirits and angels are held together in connection, form, and order by means of atmospheres (n. 152, 176). Atmospheres are active forces (n. 178). There are degrees of both kinds in the atmospheres of both worlds (n. 184, 225). (See also n. 147, 158, 300, 310.) Auricles. (See n. 403, 408.) Autumn. In the Word, autumn signifies the decline of the church (n. 73). Azygos Vena. (See n. 405.) Bark. How vegetation is brought about through the outer and inner bark (n. 314). Basilisks. Their origin (n. 341). Bats. Their origin (n. 339). Beasts. Why they cannot speak (n. 255). The sensual man differs from the beast only in this, that he can fill his memory with knowledge, and think and speak therefrom (n. 255). (See also n. 345.) Beauty. The beauty of angels is a form of their love (n. 358, 411). Bees. Their wonderful doings (n. 355, 356). Believe. To believe what is not understood is not faith (n. 427). To believe blindly the theological things which councils and certain leaders of the church have decreed, banishes from the sight of man everything of religion, that is, everything spiritual (n. 374). Betrothals of love, or of the will, with wisdom, or the understanding (n. 402). Bird. Representing the affection of an angel (n. 344). The spiritual is like a bird of paradise (n. 374). Knowledge implanted in birds (n. 134). Wonderful instincts of birds (n. 353). Birth. The state of the animal before birth is like the state of the seed in the earth while taking root; the state after birth until the animal DIVINE LOVE AND WISDOM 259 becomes prolific is like the growth of the tree until it reaches the state of fruit bearing (n. 316). Blood. (See n. 370, 380, 401, 405.) The affections of the love correspond to blood (n. 423). The blood in the lungs purifies and nourishes itself correspondently to the affections of the mind (n. 420). What the spirit of a man loves, his blood, according to correspondence, craves and attracts by respiration (n. 420). Why blood, in the Word, is called the soul (n. 379). Arterial blood (n. 420). Body. The body of man is the mind’s external which feels and acts (n. 369). All things of the body are derivatives, that is, are things woven together by fibers out of first principles, which are receptacles of love and wisdom (n. 369). All things of the body have relation to the heart and lungs (n. 372). The life of the body depends on the correspondence of its pulse and respiration with the pulse and respiration of the spirit (n. 390). The body is a form corresponding to the understanding and will (n. 136). Formation of the body in the womb (n. 400). The bodies of men can begin and continue to exist only under both suns (n. 112). The substances which constitute the cutaneous covering of the spiritual body (n. 257, 388). The Lord rose again with the whole body, differently from any man (n. 221). Bones. How formed (n. 304). Brain. Its organization (n. 366, 373, 432). Injury to the brain (n. 365). The life of man in its first principles is in the brains, and in its derivatives in the body (n. 365). In the brain are substances and forms innumerable, in which every interior sense which pertains to the understanding and will has its seat (n. 42). The cerebellum is especially the organ of the will, and the cerebrum of the understanding (n. 384). (See also n. 367, 370, 409.) Breadth. In the Word, breadth signifies the truth of a thing (n. 71). Breast. The dwelling place of the heart and lungs (n. 402, 403). Breath. Why men believe the soul or spirit to be an airy something like breath breath