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ASIA (Asia). That Asia sign. those who are in the light of truth from the Word, ill. n. 11. Concerning Great Tartary in Asia, n. 11. See TARTARY.

ASSYRIA or ASHUR (Assyria). That it sign. the rational faculty of the church, ill. n. 444. See EUPHRATES.

AT-HAND, NEAR (prope, propinquam). That at-hand and near sign. nearness of state, also that it is absolutely necessary, ill. n. 947 See also AFAR-OFF, and SHORTLY.

ATMOSPHERES (atmosphere). That in the spiritual world there are atmospheres like ether, air, and water, in which the angels of the three heavens dwell, and that those atmospheres are spiritual, n. 238, 878. AXE (securis). That an axe sign. the false from self-derived intelli gence, ill. and sho. n. 847.

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BABEL and BABYLON (Babel et Babylon, vide Pontificii). See PAPISTS.

BALAAM (Bileam). That Balaam was a hypocrite and a diviner or soothsayer, and that through his counsel given to Balak he sought to destroy the children of Israel by eating things offered to idols, sho. n. 114. BALANCES or SCALES (lances, statera, vide mensura). See

MEASURE.

BALD (calvus). That it sign. those who are without truths from the Word, ill. and sho. n. 47.

BAPTISM (baptismus). What the Papists teach concerning baptism may be seen in what is set forth concerning their doctrine, n. I. That baptism is a sacrament of repentance and an introduction into the church, ill. n. 224, and at n. 531 towards the end, n. 776. What the Reformed teach concerning baptism, see what is set forth concerning their doctrines at n. VI. That baptism is for a sign before angels, and for a memorial before men, n. 776. The reason of John's baptism, n. 776. That baptism represents and thence signifies a cleansing and purification from evils and falses, and consequently reformation and regeneration; the like was formerly signified by washing, sho. n. 378.

BARLEY (hordeum, vide triticum). See WHEAT.

BEAR (ursus). That bears sign. those who read the Word and do not understand it, whereby they involve themselves in fallacies, ill. and sho. n. 573. That in the spiritual world there appear bears that are hurtful and bears that are harmless, n. 573.

BEAR WITNESS, to (testari). See TESTIMONY.

BEAST (bestia). That beast sign. various things with men and angels, which appertain to their will or affection and to their anderstanding and thought, ill. and sho. n. 290. That beasts sign. men as to their natural affections and concupiscences, ill. and sho. n. 567. That affections and concupiscences appear in the spiritual world as beasts, concerning which see n. 601. Beasts, birds, and fishes, in general termed creatures. sign. affections, perceptions, and thoughts among men, and consequently men as to such things, ill. and sho. n. 405. That man and beast sign man as to spiritual affection and as to natural affection, sho. n. 567

What is sign. by the four beasts rising out of the sea in Daniel, chap. vii. and that nearly the same is sign. by the beast from the sea in Apoc. xiii.; ill. n. 574. That by the beast from the sea in Apoc. xiii. are sign. the men of the external church, who are called the laity, who are in faith separate from charity, n. 594. That by the beast from the earth, which is also called the false prophet, are meant the men of the church on earth, who are called clergy, and are in faith separate from charity, sho. n. 394. That by the throne of the beast is sign. where the false of faith reigns, n. 694. That by the beast, his image, his mark, and the number of his name, is sign. faith alone, its doctrine, its acknowledgment, and the falsification of the Word, n. 660, 679. That by the scarlet beast is sign. the Word, ill. and sho. n. 723, 733-735, 739-741. 746, 749. What is sign. by the four animals, see CHERUBIMS.

BED (lectus). That bed sign. doctrine, ill. from beds in the spiritual world, and sho. n. 137. That Jacob, inasmuch as in the Word he sign. the doctrine of the church, when any one thinks profoundly concerning him, there appears a man above towards the right, as it were lying on a bed, n. 137 at the end.

BENJAMIN (Benjamin). That Benjamin sign. a life of truth originating in good, sho. n. 361.

BIND, to (vincire, vide vinctus). See BOUND.

BIRD (avis). See FowL.

BIRTH (nativitas). By births and conceptions in the Word are. meant spiritual births and conceptions, which relate to the good of love and the truth of faith; inasmuch as they are procreated from the marriage of good and truth, ill. n. 139, ill. n. 543. That the members of generation in both sexes correspond with celestial love, n. 213. See to BRING FORTH.

BISHOPS (episcopi). Some particulars relative to certain English bishops in the spiritual world, contained in memorable relations at the end of some chapters, n. 241, 675, 716.

BITTER (amarum). That it sign. falsified truth, ill. and sho. n. 411. See WORMWOOD.

BLACK, BLACKNESS (nigrum, nigredo). That there are two kinds of blackness; one in opposition to white, and the other in opposition to red, concerning which see n. 231, ill. and sho. n. 312. That blackness also sign. ignorance, n. 915.

BLASPHEMY (blasphemia). That it is a denial of the divinity of the Lord, and the sanctity of the Word, ill. and sho. n. 571. That it is also profanation, ill. n. 723.

BLESSED (beatus). That the blessed sign. those who have the felicity of eternal life, n. 639, 816, 944, 951.

BLIND (cæcus). That the blind sign. those who do not know truth, and those who do not understand truth, sho. n. 210.

BLOOD (sanguis). That the blood of the Lamb sign. the divine truth of the Lord in him and from him, ill. and sho. n. 379, for this reason, because the Lord is the Word, and the divine truth therein is meant by his blood, and the divine good herein by his flesh, likewise by his body, ill. n. 555, 684. That blood, in the opposite sense, sign. violence offered to the Word, consequently to the Lord, sho. n. 825 That, in the opposite sense, t signifies divine truth falsified, adulterated and pro

faned, sho. n. 379, 404, 687, 688. That blood as of one dead sign, the infernal false principle, ill. n. 681.

BOOK (liber). That books sign. the interiors of the mind of man because in them are written all things appertaining to his life, n. 867 That the book of life is the Lord considered as the Word, consequently the Word, n. 958. That to be written in the book of life, and to be judged therefrom, sign. from the divine truth of the Word, and from the Lord thereby, sho. n. 256. That to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof, sign. to know the states of all, and to judge every one according to his state, ill. n. 259, 295. That no one can look in the book, sign. that no one but the Lord alone is able to know it in the least, n. 262. See SEAL. That to be written in the book of life, sign, he who believes in the Lord, and lives according to his commandments, sho. n. 874. That not to be written in the book of life, sign. on the contrary, n. 874. That by the little book open in the hand of the angel, is meant that essential of the New Church, that the Lord, even as to his Humanity, is the God of heaven and earth, n. 469. What was written in that little book, may be seen, n. 472. That to depart as a book or scroll rolled together, sign. that good and truth, which is in the Word, should recede and become hidden in the church, n. 335. It is said that the book was rolled together, because books were then made of skins, and were rolled up, n. 335.

BOTTLE (uter). That a bottle or pitcher sign. the same as its con‐ tents, sho. n. 672.

BOTTOMLESS PIT (abyssus). See ABYSS.

BOUND, to BIND (vinctus, vincire). That to be bound in prison and in custody, sign. to be infested by evils and falses, sho. n. 99. See CAPTIVE.

BOW (arcus). That a bow sign. doctrine combating from truths against falses, and from falses against truths, ill. and sho. n. 299. That therefore arrows and shafts sign. truths or falses, n. 299.

BRASS (as). That brass sign. natural good, ill. and sho. n. 775. BREAD (panis). That there are bread and wine in the holy suppor because bread there sign. the holy principle of love, and wine the holy principle of faith; and because the material bread and the heavenly bread mutually correspond therein, also the material wine and the heavenly wine, ill. n. 224. That bread from flour of wheat was offered up together with the sacrifices upon the altar, which was called a cake or meatoffering, sho. n. 778. That the bread of faces upon the table in the tabernacle was also made of fine flour of wheat, sho. n. 778; because wheat sign. the good of the church from the Word, and fine fiour its ruth thence derived, ill. and sho. n. 315.

BREADTH (latitudo). That breadth sign. the truth of the church, and length the good of the church, ill. and sho. n. 906, 907.

BREAST (mamma, mamilla). See PAPS.

BREAST-PLATE (thorax, vide arma). See ARMS.

BRIDEGROOM, BRIDE (sponsus, sponsa). That by virtue of the marriage of the Lord with the church, the Lord is called the bridegroom, and the church the bride, n. 797, 881. That the New Church, which is the New Jerusalem, is called the bride the Lamb's wife, sho. n. 813, 955 That the church is called the bride while it is establishing, and that it is

called the wife when it is established, n. 895 towards the end. That at the end of the Apocalypse the bride and bridegroom speak, that is, the Lord and the church, as if it were during the desponsation, n. 960.

BRIDLE of a HORSE (frænum equi). That the bridle of a horse sign. that by which the understanding is guided, sho. n. 653.

BRING FORTH, to, to TRAVAIL in BIRTH, BIRTH (parere, parturire, partus). That to bring forth and to travail in birth sign. to conceive and bring forth those things which appertain to spiritual life, sho. n. 535. See also BIRTH.

BROTHER (frater). That a man-brother is spoken of charity, and a companion of faith, sho. n. 32. That the Lord calls those, who from him are in charity, brothers, ill. and sho. n. 32. But that it is not written, neither is it becoming that they, on the contrary, should call the Lord brother, n. 32.

BUILDING (structura). That building or structure sign. every subject to which it relates, because the all of it is in the building, n. 911.

BURY, BURIAL, MONUMENT (sepelire, sepultura, sepulchrum). That to be buried sign. to rise again, and to continue life, because all earthly and impure things are rejected, n. 506. That not to be buried sign. to continue in things earthly and unclean, and for that reason to be rejected as damned, sho. n. 506.

BUY, to (emere). That by buying and selling is sign, to acquire knowledges of good and truth, or truths, and to teach them, sho. n. 606. See to TRADE. That by the bought of the Lord are sign. the redeemed, that is, the regenerate, n. 619.

CALF (vitulus). That a calf sign. the natural affection of knowing truths, and, in an opposite sense, the affection of knowing falses, sho. n. 242. That calves in sacrifices sign. the affection of knowing truths; and that the calves of Egypt, and the calves of Samaria, sign. the affection of knowing falses, n. 242. That the calf, which was one of the four animals which were cherubims, sign. the divine truth of the Word as to affection, ill. n. 242.

CALLED (vocatus). That by the called, in a general sense, are meant all throughout the world, because all are called, n. 744. That by the called, in a particular sense, are meant they who are with the Lord, ill. n. 744. That the called to the marriage-supper of the Lamb sign. those who receive the things which are of the New Church, n. 816. That the called, the chosen, and the faithful, sign. those who are in the externals, the internals, and inmost principles of the church, n. 744.

CAMP (castra). That a camp sign. all the truths and goods of the church, sho. n. 862.

CANDLE (lucerna, vide candelabrum). See CANDLESTICK.

CANDLESTICK (candelabrum). That it sign. the church as to illunination from the Lord through the Word, ill. and sho. n. 43, 75. That in particular it sign. intelligence and faith, n. 493. That the seven candlesticks sign. the New Church in the heavens and on the earths, ill. n. 66. That the seven lamps sign. the same, n. 237. That lamps and can dles sign. intelligence in both senses, n. 408. CAPTIVE, ČAPTIVITY (captivus, captivitas).

That captivity sign

spiritual captivity, which is a leading away from truths and goods, and a detention in falses and evils, sho. n. 591. That the bound and shut up in prison sign. the same as captives, n. 591, sho. n. 884 towards the end. See BOUND.

CHAIN (catena). That to have a chain in the hand sign. the endeavour proceeding from the power of binding and loosing, n. 840.

CHALICE (calix, vide poculum). See Cup.

CHARIOT (currus). That a chariot sign. the doctrine of the church, sho. n. 437. That a coach sign. nearly the same, sho. n. 781.

CHARITY (charitas). For the good of charity and of life, see WORKS. For the nature of mutual love, n. 353, see LovE. That faith exists from charity, and that it is the form of charity, altogether like speech and sound, ill. n. 655, ill. n. 875. What is the quality of the man of the church, if he gives charity the precedence; and what is his quality, if he gives faith the precedence, ill. n. 655. That charity and faith are not any thing unless they are in works, and that in works they exist and subsist, ill. n. 875. That charity and faith also exist and subsist in works while they are inwardly in will or endeavour, ill. n. 875. A comparison made between charity and faith, and heat and light, from which may be seen the nature of faith united with charity, and the nature of faith sep arated from charity, ill. n. 875. That charity consists in performing the commandments of the decalogue, sho. from Paul, n. 356. A disputation among those who make faith the primitive, and consequently spiritual, and thence, heavenly, ill. n. 386, 655. That our neighbour is not to be thought of from his person, but from his quality or character, ill. n. 611. That a dispute concerning faith alone was heard at a distance like the gnashing of teeth, and a disputation concerning charity like a beating noise, ill. n. 386.

CHASTEN, to, and to REBUKE (castigare et arguere). That they sign. to tempt, n. 215.

CHERUBIMS (cherubi). That the four animals in the throne, and round about the throne, were cherubims; and that cherubims sign. the Word in its literal sense, and defences or guards, lest the interior senses, which are spiritual and celestial, should be hurt, ill. and sho. n. 239, 275, 296, 314. The first chapter of Ezekiel concerning the cherubims explained, n. 239 towards the end. That seraphim sign, doctrine from the Word, n. 245.

CHRIST (Christus). That Christ is the Messiah, sho. n. 520. That Christ or the Messiah is the Son of God, sho. n. 520. That by Christ is meant the Divine Humanity of the Lord, n. 520; see LORD. That by Christ is meant divine truth, and that by false Christs are meant divine truths falsified, sho. n. 595.

CHURCH (ecclesia). For the doctrine of the Reformed concerning the church, see the doctrines of the Reformed churches in what is premised, p. 22. That the church appears before the Lord as a man, beautiful or deformed according to its doctrine, and at the same time conformity of life to it, n. 601. That the church becomes more perfect, as the various things of which it consists are conveniently disposed in their order, n. 66, 73. That every church commences from the goods of life or charity, and terminates in faith alone, n. 82. That the church in process of time decreases, by receding from the good of love and truths of faith, even until evil is supposed to be good, and falsehood truth, n. 658. That the

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