SENSE.—Every love has its own proper sense, [210]. Spiritual origin of the natural senses, [220]. See [Taste], [Smell], [Hearing], [Touch], [Sight]. Each of these senses has its delights, with variations according to the specific uses of each, [68]. The sense proper to conjugial love is the sense of touch, [210]. The use of this sense is the complex of all other uses, [68]. Wives have a sixth sense, and which is a sense of all the delights of the conjugial love of the husband, and this sense they have in the palms of their hands, [155*].
SENSUAL.—Natural men who love only the delights of the senses, placing their heart in every kind of luxury and pleasure, are properly meant by the sensual, [496]. The sensual immerse all things of the will, and consequently of the understanding, in the allurements and fallacies of the senses, indulging in these alone, [496].
SEPARATIONS of married partners. Legitimate causes thereof, [251-254].
SERENE, principle of peace, [155*].
SERIES.—All those things which precede in minds form series, which collect themselves together, one near another, and one after another, and these together, compose a last or ultimate, in which they co-exist, [313]. The series of the love of infants, from its greatest to its least, thus to the boundary in which it subsists or ceases, is retrograde, the reason why, [401].
SERPENT, the, signifies the love of self-intelligence, [353]. By the serpent, Gen. iii. is meant the devil, as to the conceit of self-love and self-intelligence, [135]. In hell, the forms of beasts, under which the lascivious delights of adulterous love are presented to the sight, are serpents, &c., [430].
SEX.—The love of the male sex differs from that of the female sex, [382]. Origin of the beauty of the female sex, [381-384]. Cause of the beauty of the female sex, [56].
SHEEP, in the spiritual world, are the representative forms of the state of innocence and peace of the inhabitants, [75].
SHEEPFOLD signifies the church, [129].