OPERATIONS, all, in the universe have a progression from ends through causes into effects, [400].
OPINIONS on celestial joys and eternal happiness, [3].
OPPOSITE.—There is not any thing in the universe which has not its opposite, [425]. Opposites, in regard to each other, are not relatives, but contraries, [425]. When an opposite acts upon an opposite, one destroys the other even to the last spark of its life, [255]. Marriages and adulteries are diametrically opposite to each other, [255].
OPPOSITION of adulterous love and conjugial love, [423-443].
OPULENCE in heaven is the faculty of growing wise, according to which faculty wealth is given in abundance, [250].
ORCHESTRA, [315].
ORDER, all, proceeds from first principles to last, and the last becomes the first of some following order, [311]. All things of a middle order are the last of a prior order, [311]. There is successive order and simultaneous order; the latter is from the former and according to it, [314]. In successive order, one thing follows after another from what is highest to what is lowest, [314]. In simultaneous order, one thing is next to another from what is inmost to what is outermost, [314]. Successive order is like a column with steps from the highest to the lowest, [314]. Simultaneous order is like a work cohering from the centre to the superficies, [314]. Successive order becomes simultaneous in the ultimate, the highest things of successive order become the inmost of simultaneous order, and the lowest things of successive order become the outermost of simultaneous order, [314]. Successive order of conjugial love, [305], [311].
ORGANIZATION, the, of the life of man according to his love, cannot be changed after death, [524]. A change of organization cannot possibly be effected, except in the material body, and is utterly impossible in the spiritual body after the former has been rejected, [524].
ORGANS.—Such as conjugial love is in the minds or spirits of two persons, such is it interiorly in its organs, [310]. In these organs are terminated the forms of the mind with those who are principled in conjugial love, [310].