BEAUTY.—The affection of wisdom is essential beauty, [56]. Cause of beauty in the female sex, [56]. Women have a two-fold beauty, one natural, which is that of the face and the body, and the other spiritual, which is that of the love and manners, [330]. Beauty in the spiritual world is the form of the love and manners, [330]. Discussion on the beauty of woman, [330]. Origin of that beauty, [382-384]. Ineffable beauty of a wife in the third heaven, [42].
BEES.—Their wonderful instinct, [419].
BEHIND.—In the spiritual world, it is not allowed any one to stand behind another, and speak to him, [444].
BEINGS.—The desire to continue in its form is implanted by creation in all living beings, [361].
BENEVOLENCE is one of those virtues which have respect to life and enter into it, [164].
BETROTHINGS, of, [295-314]. Reasons of betrothings, [301]. By betrothing each party is prepared for conjugial love, [302]. By betrothing, the mind of one is conjoined to the mind of the other, so as to effect a marriage of the spirit, previous to marriage, [303], [305]. Of betrothings in heaven, [20]; [21].
BIRDS in the spiritual world are representative forms, [76]. Every bird corresponds to some good or bad quality, [76].
BIRDS OF PARADISE.—In heaven the forms under which the chaste delights of conjugial love are presented to the view, are birds of paradise, &c., [430]. A pair of birds of paradise represent the middle region of conjugial love, [270].
BLESSEDNESS, [69], [180]. Love receives its blessedness from communication by uses with others, [266]. The infinity of all blessedness is in the Lord, [335].
BLESSING of marriages by the priests, [308]