AS FROM HIMSELF, [132], [134], [269], [340].
ASSAULT.—How love defends itself when assaulted, [361].
ASSES.—Of those who, in the spiritual world, appear at a distance like asses heavily laden, [232]. Blazing ass upon which a pope was seated in hell, [265].
ASSOCIATE, to.—All in the heavens are associated according to affinities and relationships of love, and have habitations accordingly, [50].
ASTRONOMY is one of those sciences by which an entrance is made into things rational, which are the ground of rational wisdom, [163].
ATHEISTS, who are in the glory of reputation arising from self-love, and thence in a high conceit of their own intelligence, enjoy a more sublime rationality than many others; the reason why, [269]. Why the understanding of atheists, in spiritual light, appeared open beneath but closed above, [421].
ATHENAEUM, city of, in the spiritual world, [151*], [182], [207]. Sports of the Athenaeides, [207]. These games were spiritual exercises, [207].
ATMOSPHERES.—The world is distinguished into regions as to the atmospheres, the lowest of which is the watery, the next above is the aerial, and still higher is the etherial, above which there is also the highest, [188], The reason why the atmosphere appears of a golden color in the heaven in which the love of uses reigns, [266].
AURA.—Thus the superior atmosphere is named, [145]. The aura is the continent of celestial light and heat, or of the wisdom and love in which the angels are principled, [145]. See [Atmospheres].