Imitations, used by hellish spirits, 580
Immensity. See Vastness of heaven
Importance in heaven
different than on earth, 408
ranked according to uses, 389
Inarticulate people, 3
Incense, meaning in the Word, 287 note b
Incomprehensibility
of angelic intelligence and wisdom, 265 , 270
of heaven’s concepts on earth, 239 – 240
of heaven’s form, 212
Indescribability
of angelic intelligence and wisdom, 269
of heaven’s pleasures, 398
The individual
always in a personal equilibrium, 594
being his or her loves, 58
each community in heaven refl ecting a
single, 68 – 72 , 200
each of us as a spirit inwardly, 76 note g,
432 – 444
freedom granted eternally to each, 597
good and evil spirits with each, 292
the good of each, 217
humanity of, 60
love as the essential reality of, 14
presented in her or his works and deeds,
475 – 476
refl ecting the whole of heaven, grasped as a
single entity, 59 – 67
varied elements acting as, 60
Individuals within communities
auras fl owing out from every, 49 note e
distanced from each other, 43
gravitating toward each other, 44
Ineffability, of angelic intelligence and wis-
dom, 269
Infants
innocence of not real, 277
meaning in the Word, 278 note b
Infl ow from heaven. See also Outreach
according to heaven’s design, 297
angels in the central heaven perceiving and
feeling directly, 8
church people not receiving any, 3
direct vs. indirect, 208 , 297 note d
entering into the forehead, 251
everything good from, 603 : 6
general, 603 : 8
how spiritual concepts spontaneously turn
to proper natural concepts, 168
from the inner into the outer, 356 : 10
and instantaneous knowledge from, 26
the Lord’s means of uniting all the heavens,
37
nature of, 135 note k
nothing drawing angels away from, 266 : 2
opening our deeper natures, 319 : 2
our broken connection with, 305 – 306
primarily into marriage love, 371
references to Secrets of Heaven on, 603 : 5 – 8
source of instinctive notion about life after
death, 602
Information
within our natural memory, 355 note f
our processing of, 603
saturating ourselves with factual, 356 : 4
Inherited evil. See Hereditary evil
Inmost heaven, greater wisdom enjoyed by
inhabitants of, 261
Inner life. See also Deeper levels; Depths
opened only by the divine truth from the
Lord, 250 , 351
what constitutes heaven, 33
Inner person
essentially an angel, 314
habitual behavior concealing from us, 492
our basic quality determined by, 501
sight of, 356 : 2
in the spiritual world, 603 : 7
Innocence. See also Simple people
of children, not real, 341
degrees of in the three heavens, 280 , 288
of infants, not real, 277
in marriage love, 382 a
people in hell absolutely opposed to, 283
spirits taken to a state of, 412
the state of heavenly angels, 276 – 283
those in a state of take no credit for any-
thing good, 278
Insanity
admitting to, 506 : 3
depending on urges, 508
people who delight in, 290 , 505
of those engaged in materialistic love, 481
Insights
means by which little children are brought
into full angelic intelligence and wisdom, 4
means by which we become spiritual, 356 : 3
Instinct concerning life after death, 602
Instruction, for people who are entering
heaven, 512 – 520index to heaven and hell 385