AFRICANS more intelligent than the learned of Europe, [114].
AGE.—The common states of a man's life are called infancy, childhood, youth, manhood, and old age, [185]. Unequal ages induce coldness in marriage, [250]. In the heavens there is no inequality of age, all there are in one flower of youth, and continue therein to eternity, [250]. Golden age, [75]. Silver age or period, [76]. Copper age, [77]. Iron age, [78]. Age of iron mixed with miry clay, [79]. Age of gold, [42], [75]; of silver, [76]; of copper, [77]; of iron, [78]; of iron mixed with clay, [79]. The ages of gold, silver, and copper are anterior to the time of which we have any historical records, [73]. Men of the golden age knew and acknowledged that they were forms receptive of life from God, and that on this account wisdom was inscribed on their souls and hearts, and hence that they saw truth from the light of truth, and by truths perceived good from the delight of the love thereof, [153*]. All those who lived in the silver age had intelligence grounded in spiritual truths, and thence in natural truths, [76].
AID, mutual, of husband and wife, [176].
ALACRITY is one of those moral virtues which have respect to life, and enter into it, [164].
ALCOHOL.—Wisdom purified may be compared with alcohol, which is a spirit highly rectified, [145].
ALCORAN, [342].
ALPHA, the, and the Omega.—Why the Lord is so called, [326].
ALPHABET in the spiritual world, each letter of it is significative, [326].
AMBASSADOR in the spiritual world discussing with two priests on the subject of human prudence, [354].