mixed with clay, 79.  The ages of gold, silver, and copper are anterior to the time of which we have any historical records, 73.  Men of the golden age knew and acknowledged that they were forms receptive of life from God, and that on this account wisdom was inscribed on their souls and hearts, and hence that they saw truth from the light of truth, and by truths perceived good from the delight of the love thereof, 153*.  All those who lived in the silver age had intelligence grounded in spiritual truths, and thence in natural truths, 76.

AID, mutual, of husband and wife, 176.

ALACRITY is one of those moral virtues which have respect to life, and enter into it, 164.

ALCOHOL.—­Wisdom purified may be compared with alcohol, which is a spirit highly rectified, 145.

ALCORAN, 342.

ALPHA, the, and the Omega.—­Why the Lord is so called, 326.

ALPHABET in the spiritual world, each letter of it is significative, 326.

AMBASSADOR in the spiritual world discussing with two priests on the subject of human prudence, 354.

ANCIENTS.—­Of marriages among the ancients, and the most ancient, 75, 77.  The most ancient people in this world did not acknowledge any other wisdom than the wisdom of life; but the ancient people acknowledged the wisdom of reason as wisdom, 130.  Precepts concerning marriages left by the ancient people to their posterity, 77.  Angels are men; their form is the human form, 30.  They appear to man when the eyes of his spirit are opened, 30.  All the angels are affections of love in the human form, 42.  Angels who are loves, and thence wisdoms, are called celestial, and with them conjugial love is celestial; angels who are wisdoms, and thence loves, are called spiritual, and similar thereto is their conjugial principle, 64.  There are among the angels some of a simple, and some of a wise character, and it is the part of the wise to judge, when the simple, from their simplicity and ignorance, are doubtful about what is just, or through mistake wander from it, 207.  Every angel has conjugial love with its virtue, ability, and delights, according to his application to the genuine use in which he is, 207.  Every man has angels associated to him from the Lord, and such is his conjunction with them, that if they were taken away, he would instantly fall to pieces, 404.

ANGER.—­Why it is attributed to the Lord, 366.

ANIMALS.—­Wonderful things conspicuous in the productions of animals, 416.  Every animal is led by the love implanted in his science, as a blind person is led through the streets by a dog, 96.  See Beasts.

ANIMUS.—­By animus is meant the affections, and thence the external inclinations, which are principally insinuated after birth by education, social intercourse, and consequent habits of life, 246.

Obs.—­These affections and inclinations constitute a sort of inferior mind.