DEATH.—Man after death is perfectly a man, yea, more perfectly a man than before in the world, [182].
DECALOGUE, why the, was promulgated by Jehovah God upon Mount Sinai with a stupendous miracle, [351].
DECANTATION.—The purification of conjugial love may be compared with the purification of natural spirits, as effected by the chemists, and called decantation, [145].
DECEASED.—When married partners have lived in love truly conjugial, the spirit of the deceased cohabits continually with that of the survivor, and this even to the death of the latter, [321].
DECLARATION, the, of love belongs to the men, [296].
DEFECATION.—The purification of conjugial love may be compared with the purification of natural spirits, as effected by the chemists, and called defecation, [145].
DEGREES.—There are three degrees of life, and hence there are three heavens, and the human mind is distinguished into those degrees, hence man corresponds to the three heavens, [532]. Heretofore the distinction of degrees in relation to greater and less has been known, but not in relation to prior and posterior, [532]. There are three degrees of the natural man; the first degree is that properly meant by the natural, the second the sensual, and the third the corporeal, [496]. Adulteries change men into these degenerate degrees, [496]. Four degrees of adulteries, [485-494]. Violations of the Word and the church correspond to the prohibited degrees enumerated in Levit., ch. xviii., [519].
DELIGHTS, all, whatever, of which man has any sensation, are delights of his love, [68]. By delights love manifests itself, yea, exists and lives, [68]. Delights follow use, and are also communicated to man according to the love thereof, [68]. The love of use derives its essence from love, and its existence from wisdom. The love of use, which derives its origin from love by wisdom, is the love and life of all celestial joys, [63]. The activity of love makes the sense of delight: its activity in heaven is with wisdom, its activity in hell is with insanity: each in its objects presents delights, [461]. Delight is the all of life to all in heaven, and to all in hell, [461]. Delights are exalted in the same degree that love is exalted, and also in the degree that the incident affections touch the ruling love more nearly, [68]. Every delight of love, in the spiritual world, is presented to the sight under various appearances, to the sense under various odors, and to the view under various forms of beasts and birds, [430]. Delights of love truly conjugial, [68].
DELIGHTS, external, without internal have no soul, [8]. Every delight without its corresponding soul continually grows more and more languid and dull, and fatigues the mind (animus) more than labor, [8]. The delight of the soul is derived from love and wisdom proceeding from the Lord, [8]. This delight enters into the soul by influx from the Lord, and descends through the superior and inferior regions of the mind into all the senses of the body, and in them is complete and full, [8]. In conjugial love are collated all joys and delights from first to last, [68], [69]. The delights of conjugial love are the same with the delights of wisdom, [293], [294]. They proceed from the Lord, and now thence into the souls of men (homines), and through their souls into their minds, and there into the interior affections and thoughts, and thence into the body, [183], [69], [144], [155*], [193]. As good is one with truth in spiritual marriage, so wives desire to be one with their husband; and hence arise conjugial delights with them, [198]. Paradisiacal delights, [8]. The delights of conjugial love ascend to the highest heaven, and in the way thither, and there, join themselves with the delights of all heavenly loves, and thereby enter into their happiness, and endure forever, [294].