ASSOCIATE, to.—­All in the heavens are associated according to affinities and relationships of love, and have habitations accordingly, 50.

ASTRONOMY is one of those sciences by which an entrance is made into things rational, which are the ground of rational wisdom, 163.

ATHEISTS, who are in the glory of reputation arising from self-love, and thence in a high conceit of their own intelligence, enjoy a more sublime rationality than many others; the reason why, 269.  Why the understanding of atheists, in spiritual light, appeared open beneath but closed above, 421.

ATHENAEUM, city of, in the spiritual world, 151*, 182, 207.  Sports of the Athenaeides, 207.  These games were spiritual exercises, 207.

ATMOSPHERES.—­The world is distinguished into regions as to the atmospheres, the lowest of which is the watery, the next above is the aerial, and still higher is the etherial, above which there is also the highest, 188, The reason why the atmosphere appears of a golden color in the heaven in which the love of uses reigns, 266.

AURA.—­Thus the superior atmosphere is named, 145.  The aura is the continent of celestial light and heat, or of the wisdom and love in which the angels are principled, 145.  See Atmospheres.

AUTHORESSES, learned.—­Examination of their writings in the spiritual world in their presence, 175.

AVERSION between married partners arises from spiritual cold, 236.  Whence arises aversion on the part of the husband towards the wife, 305.  Aversion between married partners arises from a disunion of souls and a disjunction of minds, 236.

BACK, the.—­The sphere which issues forth from man encompasses him on the back and on the breast, lightly on the back, but more densely on the breast, 171, 224.  The effect of this on married partners, who are of different minds and discordant affections. 171.

BALANCE.—­Love truly conjugal is like a balance in which the inclinations for iterated marriages are made, 318.  The mind is kept balancing to another marriage, according to the degree of love in which it was principled in the former marriage, 318.

BANK of roses, 8, 294.

BATS, in the spiritual world, are correspondences and consequent appearances of the thoughts of confirmators, 233.

BEARS signify those who read the Word in the natural sense, and see truths therein, without understanding, 193.  Those who only read the Word, and imbibe thence nothing of doctrine, appear at a distance, in the spiritual world, like bears, 78.

BEASTS are born into natural loves, and thereby into sciences corresponding to them; still they do not know, think, understand, and relish any sciences, but are led through them by their loves, almost as blind persons are led through the streets by dogs, 134.  Beasts are born into all the sciences of their loves, thus into all that concerns their nourishment, habitation, love of the sex, and the education of their