AUTHORESSES, learned.—Examination of their writings in the spiritual world in their presence, [175].

AVERSION between married partners arises from spiritual cold, [236]. Whence arises aversion on the part of the husband towards the wife, [305]. Aversion between married partners arises from a disunion of souls and a disjunction of minds, [236].

BACK, the.—The sphere which issues forth from man encompasses him on the back and on the breast, lightly on the back, but more densely on the breast, [171], [224]. The effect of this on married partners, who are of different minds and discordant affections. [171].

BALANCE.—Love truly conjugal is like a balance in which the inclinations for iterated marriages are made, [318]. The mind is kept balancing to another marriage, according to the degree of love in which it was principled in the former marriage, [318].

BANK of roses, [8], [294].

BATS, in the spiritual world, are correspondences and consequent appearances of the thoughts of confirmators, [233].

BEARS signify those who read the Word in the natural sense, and see truths therein, without understanding, [193]. Those who only read the Word, and imbibe thence nothing of doctrine, appear at a distance, in the spiritual world, like bears, [78].

BEASTS are born into natural loves, and thereby into sciences corresponding to them; still they do not know, think, understand, and relish any sciences, but are led through them by their loves, almost as blind persons are led through the streets by dogs, [134]. Beasts are born into all the sciences of their loves, thus into all that concerns their nourishment, habitation, love of the sex, and the education of their young, [133]. Difference between man and beasts, [133], [134]. Every beast corresponds to some quality, either good or evil, [76]. Beasts in the spiritual world are representative, but in the natural world they are real, [133]. Wild beasts in the spiritual world are correspondences, and thus representatives of the lusts in which the spirits are, [79]. The state of men compared with that of beasts, [151*]. Men like beasts, found in the forests, [151*]. Beast-men, [233].