ADRAMANDONI is the name of a garden in the spiritual world; this word signifies the delight of conjugial love, [183].
ADULTERERS.—As soon as a man actually becomes an adulterer, heaven is closed to him, [500]. Adulterers become more and more not men, [432]. There are four kinds of adulterers:—1st, Adulterers from a purposed principle are those who are so from the lust of the will; 2d, adulterers from a confirmed principle are those who are so from the persuasion of the understanding; 3d, adulterers from a deliberate principle are those who are so from the allurements of the senses; 4th, adulterers from a non-deliberate principle are those who are not in the faculty or not in the liberty of consulting the understanding, [432]. Those of the two former kinds become more and more not men, but the two latter kinds become men as they recede from those errors, [432]. Reasonings of adulterers, [500]. Every unclean principle of hell is from adulterers, [500], [477]. Whoever is in spiritual adultery is also in natural adultery, [520].
ADULTERERS from a deliberate principle and from a non-deliberate principle, [432].
ADULTERY, by, is meant scortation opposite to marriage, [480]. The horrible nature of adultery, [483]. Spiritual adultery is the connection of evil and the false, [520]. Adulteries are the complex of all evils, [356]. Why hell in the total is called adultery, [520]. There are three genera of adulteries, simple, duplicate, and triplicate, [478], [484]. There are four degrees of adulteries, according to which they have their predications, their charges of blame, and after death, their imputations, [485-499]:—1st, Adulteries of ignorance, &c., [486], [487]; 2d, adulteries of lust, [488], [489]; 3d, adulteries of the reason or understanding, &e., [490], [491]; 4th, adulteries of the will, [492], [493]. The distinction between adulteries of the will and those of the understanding, [490]. The adultery of the reason is less grievous than the adultery of the will, [490].—Accessories of adultery and aggravations of it, [454]. Adultery is the cause of divorce, [255]. Representative of adultery in its business, [521].
AFFECT.
Obs.—This word signifies to impress with affection either good or bad.
AFFECTIONS which are merely derivations of the love, form the will, and make and compose it, [197]. Every affection of love belongs to the will, for what a man loves, that he also wills, [196]. Every affection has its delight, [272]. Affections, with the thoughts thence derived, appertain to the mind, and sensations, with the pleasures thence derived, appertain to the body, [273]. In the natural world, almost all are capable of being joined together as to external affections, but not as to internal affections, if these disagree and appear, [272]. In the spiritual world all are conjoined as to internal affections, but not according to external, unless these act in unity with the internal, [273]. The affections according to which wedlock is commonly contracted in the world, are external, [274]; but in that case they are not influenced by internal affections, which conjoin minds, the bonds of wedlock are loosed in the house, [275]. By internal affections are meant the mutual inclinations which influence the mind of each of the parties from heaven; whereas by external affections are meant the inclinations which influence the mind of each of the parties from the world, [277]. The external affections by death follow the body, and are entombed with it, those only remaining which cohere with internal principles, [320]. Women were created by the Lord affections of the wisdom of men, [56]. Their affection of wisdom is essential beauty, [56]. All the angels are affections of love in a human form, [42]: the ruling affection itself shines forth from their faces; and from their affection, and according to it, the kind and quality of their raiment is derived and determined, [42].
AFFLICTION, great, Matt. xxiv. 21, signifies the state of the church infested by evils and falses, [80].
AFFLUX, [293].
Obs.—Afflux is that which flows upon or towards, and remains generally in the external, without penetrating interiorly, A.C., n. 7955. Efflux is that which flows from, and is generally predicated of that which proceeds from below upwards. Influx is that which flows into, or which penetrates interiorly, provided it meets with no obstacle; it is generally used when speaking of that which comes from above, thus from heaven, that is, from the Lord through heaven.