TEMPORAL.—Idea of what is temporal in regard to marriages, effect that it produced on two married partners from heaven present with Swedenborg, [216].
THEATRES in the heavens, [17].—See [Actors].
THING, every, created by the Lord is representative, [294].
THINK, to, spiritually is to think abstractedly from space and time, and to think naturally is to think in conjunction with space and time, [328]. To think and conclude from an interior and prior principle is to think and conclude from ends and causes to effects, but to think and conclude from an exterior or posterior principle, is to think and conclude from effects to causes and ends, [408]. The spiritual man thinks of things incomprehensible and ineffable to the natural man, [326].
THOUGHT is the existere, or existence of a man's life, from the esse or essence, which is love, [36]. Spiritual thoughts, compared with natural, are thoughts of thoughts, [326]. Spiritual thoughts are the beginnings and origins of natural thoughts, [320]. Spiritual thought so far exceeds natural thought as to be respectively ineffable, [326].
THUNDER.—Clapping of the air like thunder is a correspondence and consequent appearance of the conflict and collision of arguments amongst spirits, [415].
TONES, discordant, brought into harmony, [243].
TOUCH, to.—This sense is common to all the other senses, and hence borrows somewhat from them, [210]. It is the sense proper to conjugial love, [210]. The love of knowing objects, grounded on the love of circumspection and self-preservation, is the sense of touching, and the gratifications proper to it are the various kinds of titillation, [210]. The innocence of parents and the innocence of children meet each other by the touch, especially of the hands, [396]. See [Sense].
TRADES.—In the spiritual world there are trades, [207].