ECCLESIASTICAL ORDER, the, on the earth minister those things which appertain to the Lord's priestly character, [308]. What is the nature of ecclesiastical self-love, [264]. They aspire to be gods, so far as that love is unrestrained. [264].
EDEN.—See [Garden].
EDUCATION of children in the spiritual world, [411-413].
EFFECT.—See [End].
EFFIGY.—Two married partners, between or in whom conjugial love subsists, are an effigy and form of it, [65]. In the spiritual world the faces of spirits become the effigies of their internal affections, [273].
ELECTION belongs to the man and not to the woman, [296]. The women have the right of election of one of their suitors, [296].
ELEVATION.—With men there is an elevation of the mind into superior light, and with women elevation of the mind into superior heat, [188]. Elevation into superior light with men is elevation into superior intelligence, and thence into wisdom, in which also there are ascending degrees of elevation, [188]. The elevation into superior heat with women is an elevation into chaster and purer conjugial love, and continually towards the conjugial principle, which from creation lies concealed in their inmost principles, [188]. These elevations considered in themselves are openings of the mind, [188].
ELYSIAN FIELDS, [182].
EMPLOYMENTS in the spiritual world, [207].