FLESH, the, is contrary to the spirit, that is, contrary to the spiritual things of the church, [497]. Combat between the flesh and the spirit, [488]. The flesh is ignorant of the delights of the spirit, [481]. The flesh is not sensible of those things which happen in the flesh, but the spirit perceives them, [440]. What is signified by the words of our Lord, "They are no more twain but one flesh," [50], [156*], [178], [321]. By "all flesh," in the Word, is signified every man, [156*].
FLOW FROM, to.—All that which flows from a subject, and encompasses and environs it, is named a sphere, [386].
FLOW IN, to.—Every thing which flows in from the Lord into man, flows into his inmost principle, which is the soul, and descends thence into his middle principle, which is the mind, and through this into his ultimate principle, which is the body, [101]. The marriage of good and truth flows thus from the Lord with man, immediately into his soul, and thence proceeds to the principles next succeeding, and through these to the extreme or outermost, [101].
FLOWERS.—The delights of conjugial love are represented in heaven by the flowers with which the cloaks and tunics of married partners are embroidered, [137].
FLOWERY FIELDS.—In heaven there are flowery fields which are the appearances under which the chaste pleasures of conjugial love are presented to the sight, [430].
FOOD, heavenly, in its essence is nothing but love, wisdom, and use, united together; that is, use effected by wisdom, and derived from love, [6]. Food for the body is given to every one in heaven, according to the use which he performs, [6].
FORM.—There is nothing that exists but in a form, [186]. There is no substance without a form, [66]. Every form consists of various things, and is such as is the harmonic co-ordination thereof and arrangement to one, [524]. All a man's affections and thoughts are in forms, and thence from forms, [186]. The form of heaven is derived solely from varieties of souls and minds arranged into such an order as to make a one, [524]. Truth is the form of good, [198]. The human form in its inmost principles is from creation a form of love and wisdom, [361]. Men from creation are forms of science, intelligence, and wisdom; and women are forms of the love of those principles as existing with men, [187]. Form of the marriage of good and truth, [100]. Two married partners are that form in their inmost principles, and thence in what is derived from those principles, in proportion as the interiors of their mind are opened, [101], [102]. Two married partners are the very forms of love and wisdom, or of good and truth, [66]. The internal form of man is that of his spirit, [186]. The woman is a form of wisdom inspired with love-affection, [56]. The male form is the intellectual form, and the female is the voluntary, [228]. The most perfect and most noble human form results from the conjunction of two forms by marriage, so as to become one form, [201]. How man, created a form of God, could be changed into a form of the devil, [153*]. The desire to continue in its form is implanted from creation in all living things, [361]. See [Substance].