Blessings
apparent, 364 note f
desire to share with one another, 369
Blindness. See also Eyes
meaning in the Word, 456 , 487 note a
reason for our, 312
Blood. See The Lord’s fl esh and blood
Body. See Earthly body
Book of life, 463
Book of Revelation, white horse in, 1
Boys, meaning in the Word, 368 note b
Brain, service the sense of smell provides for,
402
Bread, 111
Breadth, meaning in the Word, 197
Breathing
during dying, 449
in heaven, 235 , 481
Bribes, memory of following us after death,
462 b: 3
Bride, meaning in the Word, 180 , 371
Bridegroom, meaning in the Word, 180 , 371
Bronze Age, 115
Burial, spirits amazement at, 452
C
Callousness, 562
Calm, apparent, 290
Camel, meaning in the Word, 365 note h
Cardinal directions. See The four quarters in
heaven
Cares of life
angels not distracted by, 266 : 3 , 393
infants not distracted by, 277
spirits not distracted by, once freed from a
body, 576
Caterpillars, 108
Catholics, 508 : 3 , 535 , 562 , 587
Cattle, 110
Caves, sending people directly into, 491
Cellars, meaning in the Word, 488
Central heaven. See Third (or central) heaven
Cerebellum, region of the head that covers,
251
Cerebrum, region of the head that covers,
251
Character, presented in our works and deeds,
475 – 476
Chaste love, 489 : 7
Chest, meaning in the Word, 97 note c
Children in heaven, 329 – 345 , 416. See also
Infants
being taught there, 514
concepts of, 338
different natures of, 333
female angels mothering, 332
garments of, 337
innocence of, 341
making up a third of, 4
maturing in, 4 , 330 , 334 – 335 , 391
not yet angels, 340
reawakened immediately, 332
remaining in the state of a child, 330
thinking they were born there, 345
various natures of, 339
Chinese in heaven, 325
Christian world. See also Non-Christians; Pre-
Christian people
beliefs held in, 311 – 313
hypocrisy within, 325
people completely separated from, 3
people in having blind ignorance about
angels and spirits, 74
scholars from, 313
The church. See also The early church; People
outside the church
adultery rationalized within, 374
called the bride and wife, 180
defi ning, 318 note a
drawing to a close, 311
gradual destruction of, 1 note b
intellectuals in, 183
Israelite, 110
Jerusalem as, 73
mired in ignorance, 526
people born outside of, 3 , 308 , 318 – 328
people speaking from doctrine of, 291
resentment against for keeping people in
ignorance, 495
universal, 308 , 328
Church people
beliefs among, 311 – 312
denying the Lord’s divinity, 83
empty talk of, 1 , 302 , 374
ignorance among, 452
ignoring the Lord, 3
scholars among, 353 note d
Cicero, Swedenborg conversing with, 322374 HEAVEN and HELL