SUBSTANTIAL.—The difference between what is substantial and what is material is like the difference between what is prior and what is posterior, [31]. Spiritual things are substantial, [328]. Spirits and angels are in substantial and not in materials, [328]. Man after death is a substantial man, because this substantial man lay inwardly concealed in the natural or material man, [31]. The substantial man sees the substantial man, as the material man sees the material man, [31]. All things in the spiritual world are substantial and not material, whence it is that there are in their perfection in that world, all things which are in the natural world, and many things besides, [207]. Every idea of man's, however sublimated, is substantial, that is, attached to substances, [66].
SUCCESSIVE.—There is a successive order and a simultaneous order, and there is an influx of successive order into simultaneous order, [314]. See [Order].
SUMMARY of the Lord's commandments, [340], [82].
SUN.—There is a sun of the spiritual world as there is a sun of the natural world, [380]. The sun of the spiritual world proceeds immediately from the Lord, who is in the midst of it, [235]. That sun is pure love [235], [380], [532]. It appears fiery before the angels, altogether as the sun of our world appears before men, [235]. It does not set nor rise, but stands constantly between the zenith and the horizon, that is, at the elevation of 45 degrees, [137]. The spiritual sun is pure love, and the natural sun is pure fire, [182], [532]. Whatever proceeds from the spiritual sun partakes of life, since it is pure love; whatever proceeds from the natural sun partakes nothing of life, since it is pure fire, [532]. The spiritual sun is in the centre of the universe, and its operation, being without space and time, is instant and present from first principles in last, [391]. For what end the sun of the natural world was created, [235]. The fire of the natural sun exists from no other source than from the fire of the spiritual sun, which is divine love, [380].
SUPPERS.—In heaven, as in the world, there are suppers, [19].
SURVIVOR, [321].—See [Deceased].
SWAMMERDAM, [416].
SWANS, in the spiritual world, signify conjugial love in the lowest region of the mind, [270].
SWEDENBORG.—He protests in truth that the memorable relations annexed to the chapters in this work are not fictions, but were truly done and seen; not seen in any state of the mind asleep, but in a state of full wakefulness, [1]. That it had pleased the Lord to manifest Himself unto him, and send him to teach the things relating to the New Church, [1]. That the interiors of his mind and spirit were opened by the Lord, and that thence it was granted him to be in the spiritual world with angels, and at the same time in the natural world with men, [1], [39], [326]. State of anxiety into which he fell when once he thought of the essence and omnipresence of God from eternity, that is, of God before the creation of the world, [328]. The angels, as well as himself, did not know the differences between spiritual and natural, because there had never before been an opportunity of comparing them together by any person's existing at the same time in both worlds; and without such comparison and reference those differences were not ascertainable, [327]. On a certain time, as he was wandering through the streets of a great city inquiring for a lodging, he entered a house inhabited by married partners of a different religion; the angels instantly accosted him, and told him they could not on that account remain with him there, [242]. He had observed for twenty-five years continually, from an influx perceptible and sensible, that it is impossible to think analytically concerning any form of government, civil law, moral virtue, or any spiritual truth, unless the divine principle flows in from the Lord's wisdom through the spiritual world, [419]. He declares, that having related a thousand particulars respecting departed spirits, he has never heard any one object, how can such be their lot when they are not yet risen from their sepulchres, the last judgment not being yet accomplished? [28].