AFFECT.

Obs.—­This word signifies to impress with affection either good or bad.

AFFECTIONS which are merely derivations of the love, form the will, and make and compose it, 197.  Every affection of love belongs to the will, for what a man loves, that he also wills, 196.  Every affection has its delight, 272.  Affections, with the thoughts thence derived, appertain to the mind, and sensations, with the pleasures thence derived, appertain to the body, 273.  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.  In the spiritual world all are conjoined as to internal affections, but not according to external, unless these act in unity with the internal, 273.  The affections according to which wedlock is commonly contracted in the world, are external, 274; but in that case they are not influenced by internal affections, which conjoin minds, the bonds of wedlock are loosed in the house, 275.  By internal affections are meant the mutual inclinations which influence the mind of each of the parties from heaven; whereas by external affections are meant the inclinations which influence the mind of each of the parties from the world, 277.  The external affections by death follow the body, and are entombed with it, those only remaining which cohere with internal principles, 320.  Women were created by the Lord affections of the wisdom of men, 56.  Their affection of wisdom is essential beauty, 56.  All the angels are affections of love in a human form, 42:  the ruling affection itself shines forth from their faces; and from their affection, and according to it, the kind and quality of their raiment is derived and determined, 42.

AFFLICTION, great, Matt. xxiv. 21, signifies the state of the church infested by evils and falses, 80.

AFFLUX, 293.

Obs.—­Afflux is that which flows upon or towards, and remains generally in the external, without penetrating interiorly, A.C., n. 7955.  Efflux is that which flows from, and is generally predicated of that which proceeds from below upwards.  Influx is that which flows into, or which penetrates interiorly, provided it meets with no obstacle; it is generally used when speaking of that which comes from above, thus from heaven, that is, from the Lord through heaven.

AFRICANS more intelligent than the learned of Europe, 114.

AGE.—­The common states of a man’s life are called infancy, childhood, youth, manhood, and old age, 185.  Unequal ages induce coldness in marriage, 250.  In the heavens there is no inequality of age, all there are in one flower of youth, and continue therein to eternity, 250.  Golden age, 75.  Silver age or period, 76.  Copper age, 77.  Iron age, 78.  Age of iron mixed with miry clay, 79.  Age of gold, 42, 75; of silver, 76; of copper, 77; of iron, 78; of iron