DURA-MATER, [315].
DUTIES.—There are duties proper to the man, and duties proper to the wife, [174]. In the duties proper to the men, the primary agent is understanding, thought, and wisdom; whereas in the duties proper to the wives, the primary agent is will, affection, and love, [175].
EAR, the, does not hear and discern the harmonies of tunes in singing, and the concordances of the articulation of sounds in discourse, but the spirit, [440]. In heaven the right ear is the good of hearing, and the left the truth thereof, [316].
EARTH, the, or ground is the common mother of all vegetables, [206], [397]; and of all minerals, [397].
EARTH, the lower, in the spiritual world, is next above hell, [231].
EARTH, or country, [13], [27], [37], [49], [69], [71], [144], [320], &c.
EASE, by, and sloth the mind grows stupid and the body torpid, and the whole man becomes insensible to every vital love, especially to conjugial love, [249].
EAST, the.—The Lord is the East, because he is in the sun there, [261].
EAT, to, of the tree of life, in a spiritual sense, is to be intelligent and wise from the Lord; and to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, signifies to be intelligent and wise from self, [353]. To eat of the tree of life, is to receive eternal life; to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, is to receive damnation, [135], [444].