WORD, the, with the most ancient, and with the ancient people, [77].
WORD, the, is the Lord, [516]. In every thing of the Word there is the marriage of good and truth, [516]. The Word is the medium of conjunction of the Lord with man, and of man with the Lord, [128]. In its essence it is divine truth united to divine good, and divine good united to divine truth, [128]. It is the perfect marriage of good and truth, [128]. In every part of the Word there is a spiritual sense corresponding to the natural sense, and by means of the former sense the men of the church have conjunction with the Lord, and consociation with angels, [532]. The sanctity of the Word resides in this sense, [5-32]. While man reads the Word, and collects truths out of it, the Lord adjoins good, [128].
WORKHOUSES, infernal, [264]. See also [54], [80], [461].
WORKS are good or bad, according as they proceed from an upright will and thought, or from a depraved will and thought, whatever may be their appearance in externals, [527]. Good works are uses, [10].
WORLD OF SPIRITS, the, is intermediate between heaven and hell, and there the good are prepared for heaven, and the wicked for hell, [48*], [436], [461], [477]. It is in the world of spirits that all men are first collected after their departure out of the natural world, [2], [477]. The good are there prepared for heaven, and the wicked for hell; and after such preparation, they discover ways open for them to societies of their like, with whom they are to live eternally, [10], [477].
WORLD, the natural, subsists from its sun, which is pure fire, [380]. There is not anything in the natural world which is not also in the spiritual world, [182], [207]. In the natural world, almost all are capable of being joined together as to external affections, but not as to internal affections, if these disagree and appear, [272].
WORLD, the spiritual, subsists from its sun, which is pure love, as the natural world subsists from its sun, [380]. In the spiritual world there are not spaces, but appearances of spaces, and these appearances are according to the states of life of the inhabitants, [50]. All things there appear according to correspondences, [76]. All who, from the beginning of creation have departed by death out of the natural world, are in the spiritual world, and as to their loves, resemble what they were when alive in the natural world, and continue such to eternity, [73]. In the spiritual world there are all such things there as there are on earth, and those things in the heavens are infinitely more perfect, [182].
Obs.—The spiritual world in general comprehends heaven, the world of spirits, and hell.
WORMS.—Wonders concerning them, [418]. Silk-worms, [420].
WORSHIP, the, of God in heaven returns at stated periods, and lasts about two hours, [23].