DISJUNCTION, all, derives its origin from the opposition of spiritual spheres, which emanate from their subjects, 171.

DISSIMILITUDES in the spiritual world are separated, 273.  See Likeness.

DISTANCES.—­Spheres cause distances in the spiritual world, 171.  Distances in the spiritual world are appearances according to the states of mind, 78.

DISTINCTION, characteristic, of the woman and the man, 217.

DIVERSITIES.—­Distinction between varieties and diversities.  There are varieties between those things which are of one genus, or of one species, also between the genera and species; but there is a diversity between those things which are in the opposite principle, 324.  In heaven there is infinite variety, and in hell infinite diversity, 324.

DIVIDED.—­Every thing divided is more and more multiple, and not more and more simple, because what is continually divided approaches nearer and nearer to the Infinite, in which all things are infinitely, 329.

DIVINE GOOD AND TRUTH.—­The divine good is the esse of the divine substance, and the divine truth is the existere of the divine substance, 115.  The divine good and truth proceed as one from the Lord, 87.  The Lord God, the Creator, is essential divine good, and essential divine truth, 84.  The divine truth in the Word is united to the divine good, 129.  All divine truth in the heavens gives forth light, 77.

DIVINE ESSENCE, the, is composed of love, wisdom, and use, 183.  Nothing but what is of the divine essence can proceed from the Lord, and flow into the inmost principle of man, 183.  There is not any essence without a form, nor any form without an essence, 87.

DIVINE LOVE AND WISDOM.—­In the Lord God, the Creator, there are divine love and Divine Wisdom, 84.

DIVISIBLE.—­Every grain of thought, and every drop of affection, is divisible ad infinitum:  in proportion as his ideas are divisible man is wise, 329.  Every thing is divisible in infinitum, 185.

DIVORCE, by, is meant the abolition of the conjugial covenant, and thence a plenary separation, and after this an entire liberty to marry another wife, 468.  The only cause of divorce is adultery, according to the Lord’s precept.  Matt. xix. 9, 255, 468.

DOCTRINALS of the New Church in five precepts, 82.

DOGS in the spiritual world represent the lusts in which the inhabitants are principled, 79.  Who those are who appear like dogs of indulgences, 505.

DOVES, turtle.—­In heaven, the appearances under which the chaste delights of conjugial love are presented to the view, are turtle-doves, &c., 430.  A pair of turtle-doves represents conjugial love of the highest region, 270.

DRAGONS in the spiritual world represent the falsities and depraved inclinations of the inhabitants to those things which appertain to idolatrous worship, 79.

DRESS of a bridegroom and bride during their marriage in heaven, 20, 21.