East-west axis of heaven
dwelling arrangement for angels on basis
of, 149
people who are sensitive to the good
intrinsic to love living along, 148 – 149 ,
200
Ecclesiastical affairs, in the heavens, 221 – 227 ,
388 , 393 : 1
Ecclesiastical algebra, 263 note a
Education of children, 344
Eggs, 108
Egypt, meaning in the Word, 307 note c
Elderly people
death of, 414
meaning in the Word, 278 note b
The elect, 420
Elegant living, 358
Emanations
defi ning, 139
of the divine truth, from the Lord, 137
note p
of everything holy, from the Father, 2
Embarrassment, 506 : 3
Emissaries, 603
used by angelic spirits, 601
used by hellish spirits, 580
Empowerment, in the heavens, 564
Enlightenment
alterations of state as to, 155 note b
only in those who think wisely, 473
seeing beyond literal meaning of the Word,
545
Enmity toward people who do not support us,
562 , 570
Enslavement, 574
Envoy spirits, 255
Envy, 562 , 570
Equilibrium
everything in the natural and spiritual
worlds constituted by, 592
between heaven and hell, 537 , 589 – 596
individuals always in a personal, 594
Essential reality, of the life of everything, 9
Eternal life, 5
accepting from the Lord, 5
our revival from the dead and entry into,
445 – 452
people fi xed in opposition to ideal of, 452
spirits’ ideas about, 406
Eternity, angels’ view of, 167
Evening, 155
angels’ view of, 166
meaning in the Word, 155 note b
Everything
coming from something prior, 9
going back to what is good or true, 9
Evil
always having something false in it, 551
note a
angelic communities assigned to lead us
away from, 391
attempting to rationalize, 153 , 385
being allowed to engage in, 293
cannot be hidden in the other life, 550
false notions arising from, 487
fl owing out of hell, 591
human beings unable to be restrained from,
295
infi nite variety of, 588
needing to notice before it can be banished,
533
our birth into, 202 note c, 293 , 342 note c,
424 , 484 note f, 523 note a, 598
power of restraining people from, 5 note c
source of, 220 note g, 484 note f, 547
suppressing the good, 499
taming with fear of punishment, 509
urges to, 571
what the good is transformed into when
rejected or stifl ed, 9
Evil people
having no fear of God, 530
incapable of breathing in heaven, 235 note a
leading the same life outwardly as good
people do, 534
no peace for, 290
not wanting to believe in life after death,
470
uses for, 508 : 6
wrongness of helping, 390 note b
Evil spirits. See Hellish spirits
Extension in heaven, 85
Eyes. See also Sight
of angels more delicate than ours, 170
compared with seeing through a micro-
scope, 269 : 2
corresponding to intelligence, 271
left and right, 118 note c, 333
life of, 434
limitations of human, 76 , 85 – 86 , 453 , 582378 HEAVEN and HELL