SPIRITUAL—The difference between what is spiritual and natural is like that between prior and posterior, which bear no determinate proportion to each other, [326]. Spiritual principles without natural, which are their constituent have no consistence, [52]. Spiritual principles considered in themselves have relation to love and wisdom, [52]. The things relating to the church, which are called spiritual things, reside in the inmost principles with man, [130]. By the spiritual is meant he who loves spiritual things, and thereby is wise from the Lord, [281]. A man (homo) without religion is not spiritual, but remains natural, [149]. To become spiritual is to be elevated out of the natural principle, that is, out of the light and heat of the world into the light and heat of heaven, [347]. Man becomes spiritual in proportion as his rational principle begins to derive a soul from influx out of heaven, which is the case so far as it is affected and delighted with wisdom, [145].
SPIRITUALLY, to think, is to think abstractedly from space and time, [328].
SPORTS of wisdom in the, heavens, [132]. Literary sports, [207]. Conjugial love in its origin is the sport of wisdom and love, [75], [183]. Games and shows in the heavens, [17]. The sixth sense in the female sex is called in the heavens the sport of wisdom with its love, and of love with its wisdom, [155*].
SPRING.—In heaven the heat and light proceeding from the sun cause perpetual spring, [137]. In heaven, with conjugial partners, there is spring in its perpetual conatus, [355]. All who come into heaven return into their vernal youth, and into the powers appertaining to that age, [44].
STABLES signify instructions, [76].
STAGE entertainments. See [Actors].
STATES.—The state of a man's life is his quality as to the understanding and the will, [184]. The state of a man's life from infancy, even to the end of life, is continually changing, [185]. The common states of a man's life are called infancy, childhood, youth, manhood, and old age, [185]. No subsequent state of life is the same as a preceding one, [186]. The last state is such as the successive order is, from which it is formed and exists, [313]. What was the primeval state, which is called a state of integrity, [355]. Of the state of married partners after death, [45-54]. There are two states into which a man enters after death—an external and an internal state; he comes first into his external state, and afterwards into his internal, [47*].
STATUE, the, which Nebuchadnezzar saw in a dream represented the ages of gold, silver, copper, and iron, [78].
STONES signify natural truths, and precious stones spiritual truths, [76].