WILL, the, is the receptacle of love, for what a man loves that he wills, [347]. Will principle, considered in itself, is nothing but an affect and effect of some love, [461]. Whoever conjoins to himself the will of a man, conjoins to himself the whole man, [196]. The will acts by the body, wherefore, if the will were to be taken away, action would be instantly at a stand, [494].
WILL and UNDERSTANDING.—The will is the man himself, and the understanding is the man as grounded in the will, [490]. The life of man essentially is his will, and formally is his understanding, [493]. The will is the receptacle of good, and the understanding is the receptacle of truth, [121]. Love, charity, and affection, belong to the will, and perception and thought to the understanding, [121]. All things which are done by a man are done from his will and understanding, and without these acting principles a man would not have either action or speech, otherwise than as a machine, [527]. Whoever conjoins to himself the will of another, conjoins also to himself his understanding, [196]. The understanding is not so constant in its thoughts as the will is in its affections, [221]. He that does not discriminate between will and understanding, cannot discriminate between evils and goods. [490]. The will alone of itself acts nothing, but whatever it acts, it acts by the understanding, and the understanding alone of itself acts nothing, but whatever it acts, it acts from the will, [490]. With every man the understanding is capable of being elevated according to knowledges, but the will only by a life according to the truths of the church, [269]. The natural man can elevate his understanding into the light of heaven, and think and discourse spiritually, but if the will at the same time does not follow the understanding, he is still not elevated, for he does not remain in that elevation, but in a short time he lets himself down to his will, and there fixes his station, [347], [495]. The will flows into the understanding, but not the understanding into the will, yet the understanding teaches what is good and evil, and consults with the will, that out of those two principles it may choose, and do what is agreeable to it, [490]. The will of the wife conjoins itself with the understanding of the man, and thence the understanding of the man with the will of the wife, [159]. In adultery of the reason, the understanding acts from within, and the will from without, but in adultery of the will, the will acts from within, and the understanding from without, [490].
WISDOM is nothing but a form of love, [493]. It is a principle of life, [130]. Wisdom, considered in its fulness, is a principle, at the same time, of knowledges, of reason, and of life, [130]. What wisdom is as a principle of life, [130], [293]. Wisdom consists of truths, [84]. The understanding is the receptacle of wisdom, [400]. The abode of wisdom is in use, [18]. Wisdom cannot exist with a man but by means of the love of growing wise, [88]. Wisdom with men is twofold, rational and moral; their rational wisdom is of the understanding alone, and their moral wisdom is of the understanding and life together, [163], [293]. Rational wisdom regards the truths and goods which appear inwardly in man, not as its own, but as flowing in from the Lord, [102]. Moral wisdom shuns evils and falses as leprosies, especially the evils of lasciviousness, which contaminate its conjugial love, [102]. The things which relate to rational wisdom constitute man's understanding, and those which relate to moral wisdom constitute his will, [195]. Wisdom of wives, [208]. The perception, which is the wisdom of the wife, is not communicable to the man, neither is the rational wisdom of the man communicable to the wife, [168], [208]. The moral wisdom of the man is not communicable to women, so far as it partakes of rational wisdom, [168]. Wisdom and conjugial love are inseparable companions, [98]. The Lord provides conjugial love for those who desire wisdom, and who consequently advance more and more into wisdom, [98]. There is no end to wisdom, [185]. Temple of wisdom, [56]. Sports of wisdom, [182], [151*]. See [Love and Wisdom].
WISE.—A wise one is not a wise one without a woman, or without love, a wife being the love of a wise man's wisdom, [56].
WOMAN, the, was created and born to become the love of the understanding of a man, [55], [91]. Woman was created out of the man, hence she has an inclination to unite, and, as it were, reunite herself with the man, [173]. Conjugial love is implanted in every woman from creation, [409]. Woman is actually formed into a wife, according to the description in the book of creation, [193]. In the universe nothing was created more perfect than a woman of a beautiful countenance and becoming manners, [56]. The woman receives from the man the truth of the church, [125]. Woman, by a peculiar property with which she is gifted from her birth, draws back the internal affections into the inner recesses of her mind, [274]. Affection, application, manners, and form of woman, [91], [218]. Women were created by the Lord affections of the wisdom of men, [56]. They are created forms of the love of the understanding of men, [187]. Women have an interior perception of love, and men only an exterior, [47*]. In assemblies where the conversation of the men turns on subjects proper to rational wisdom, women are silent, and listen only, the reason why, [165]. Intelligence of wisdom, [218]. Women cannot enter into the duties proper to men, [175]. Difference between females, women, and wives, [199]. See [Wife].
WONDERS conspicuous in eggs, [416].
WOOD signifies natural good, [77]. Woods of palm-trees, and of rose-trees, [77].
WORD, the ancient, at this day is lost, and is only reserved in Great Tartary, [77]. The historical books of this Word are called the Wars of Jehovah, and the prophetic books The Enunciations, [77].