ANCIENTS.—Of marriages among the ancients, and the most ancient, [75], [77]. The most ancient people in this world did not acknowledge any other wisdom than the wisdom of life; but the ancient people acknowledged the wisdom of reason as wisdom, [130]. Precepts concerning marriages left by the ancient people to their posterity, [77]. Angels are men; their form is the human form, [30]. They appear to man when the eyes of his spirit are opened, [30]. All the angels are affections of love in the human form, [42]. Angels who are loves, and thence wisdoms, are called celestial, and with them conjugial love is celestial; angels who are wisdoms, and thence loves, are called spiritual, and similar thereto is their conjugial principle, [64]. There are among the angels some of a simple, and some of a wise character, and it is the part of the wise to judge, when the simple, from their simplicity and ignorance, are doubtful about what is just, or through mistake wander from it, [207]. Every angel has conjugial love with its virtue, ability, and delights, according to his application to the genuine use in which he is, [207]. Every man has angels associated to him from the Lord, and such is his conjunction with them, that if they were taken away, he would instantly fall to pieces, [404].
ANGER.—Why it is attributed to the Lord, [366].
ANIMALS.—Wonderful things conspicuous in the productions of animals, [416]. Every animal is led by the love implanted in his science, as a blind person is led through the streets by a dog, [96]. See [Beasts].
ANIMUS.—By animus is meant the affections, and thence the external inclinations, which are principally insinuated after birth by education, social intercourse, and consequent habits of life, [246].
Obs.—These affections and inclinations constitute a sort of inferior mind.
ANTIPATHY.—In the spiritual world, antipathies are not only felt, but also appear in the face, the discourse, and the gesture, [273]. It is otherwise in the natural world, where antipathies may be concealed, [272]. Among certain married partners in the natural world, there is an antipathy in their internals, and an apparent sympathy in their externals, [292]. Antipathy derives its origin from the opposition of spiritual spheres which emanate from subjects, [171].
ANTIQUITY.—Memorable things of antiquity seen in heaven amongst a nation that lived in the copper age, [77].
AORTA, [315].
APES.—Of those in hell who appear like apes, [505].
APOCALYPSE.—A voice from heaven commanded Swedenborg to apply to the work begun in the Apocalypse, and finish it within two years, [522], [532].