young, 133.  Difference between man and beasts, 133, 134.  Every beast corresponds to some quality, either good or evil, 76.  Beasts in the spiritual world are representative, but in the natural world they are real, 133.  Wild beasts in the spiritual world are correspondences, and thus representatives of the lusts in which the spirits are, 79.  The state of men compared with that of beasts, 151*.  Men like beasts, found in the forests, 151*.  Beast-men, 233.

BEAUTY.—­The affection of wisdom is essential beauty, 56.  Cause of beauty in the female sex, 56.  Women have a two-fold beauty, one natural, which is that of the face and the body, and the other spiritual, which is that of the love and manners, 330.  Beauty in the spiritual world is the form of the love and manners, 330.  Discussion on the beauty of woman, 330.  Origin of that beauty, 382-384.  Ineffable beauty of a wife in the third heaven, 42.

BEES.—­Their wonderful instinct, 419.

BEHIND.—­In the spiritual world, it is not allowed any one to stand behind another, and speak to him, 444.

BEINGS.—­The desire to continue in its form is implanted by creation in all living beings, 361.

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

BETROTHINGS, of, 295-314.  Reasons of betrothings, 301.  By betrothing each party is prepared for conjugial love, 302.  By betrothing, the mind of one is conjoined to the mind of the other, so as to effect a marriage of the spirit, previous to marriage, 303, 305.  Of betrothings in heaven, 20; 21.

BIRDS in the spiritual world are representative forms, 76.  Every bird corresponds to some good or bad quality, 76.

BIRDS OF PARADISE.—­In heaven the forms under which the chaste delights of conjugial love are presented to the view, are birds of paradise, &c., 430.  A pair of birds of paradise represent the middle region of conjugial love, 270.

BLESSEDNESS, 69, 180.  Love receives its blessedness from communication by uses with others, 266.  The infinity of all blessedness is in the Lord, 335.

BLESSING of marriages by the priests, 308

BLUE.—­What the color blue signifies, 76.

BODY, the material, is composed of watery and earthy elements, and of aerial vapors thence arising, 192.  The material body of man is overcharged with lusts, which are in it as dregs that precipitate themselves to the bottom when the must of wine is clarified, 272.  Such are the constituent substances of which the bodies of men in the world are composed, 272.  The bodies of men viewed interiorly are merely forms of their minds exteriorly organized to effect the purposes of the soul, 310.  See Mind.  Every thing which is done in the body is from a spiritual origin, 220.  All things which are done in the body by man flow in from his spirit, 310.  Man when stripped of his body is in his internal affections, which his body had before concealed, 273.  What is in the spirit as derived from the body does not long continue, but the love which is in the spirit and is derived from the body does continue, 162, 191.  Marriages of the spirit ought to precede marriages of the body, 310.