LOVE OF THE BODY, the.—­Dignities and honors are peculiarly the objects of the love of the body; besides these, there are also various enticing allurements, such as beauty and an external polish of manners, sometimes even an unchasteness of character, 49.

LOVE OF CHILDREN, the, with the mother and the father, conjoin themselves as the heart and lungs in the breast, 284.  The love of infants corresponds to the defence of truth and good, 127.  Why the love of infants descends and does not ascend, 402.  The love of infants and of children is different with spiritual married partners from what it is with natural, 405.  The love of infants remains after death, especially with women, 410.  Of the conjunction of conjugial love with the love of infants, 385-414.

LOVE OF DOMINION, the, grounded in the love of self, and the love of dominion grounded in the love of uses, 262.  The love of dominion grounded in the love of self, is the first universal love of hell; it is in the highest degree infernal, 262.  The love of dominion grounded in the love of uses is the universal love of heaven; it is in the highest degree celestial, 262, 266.  When the ruling love is touched, there ensues an emotion of the mind (animus), and if the touch hurts, there ensues wrath, 358.

LOVE OF THE NEIGHBOR, the, is also the love of doing uses, 269.  The love of the neighbor, or of doing uses, is a spiritual love, 269.

LOVE, polygamical, is connubial, and at the same time adulterous, 78.  It is the love of the sex, limited to a number, 345.  It is the love of the external or natural man, and thus is not conjugial love, 345.  It is inscribed on the natural man, 345.

LOVE OF SELF, the, is also the love of bearing rule over others, 269.  The love of self, or the love of bearing rule over others, is a corporeal love, 269.

LOVE OF THE SEX, the, is a love directed to several, and contracted with several of the sex, 48.  The love of the sex exists with the natural man, but conjugial love with the spiritual man, 38.  The love of the sex with man is not the origin of conjugial love, but is its first rudiment; thus it is like an external natural principle, in which an internal spiritual principle is implanted, 98.  It is the first in respect to time, but not in respect to end, 98.  The love of the sex is the universal of all loves, being implanted from creation in the heart of man, and is for the sake of the propagation of the human race, 46.  What the chaste love of the sex is, and whence derived, 55, 99.  The love of the sex belongs to the external of natural man, and hence is common to every animal, 94.  It is in itself natural, 141.  Origin of the love of the sex, 446.  It is at first corporeal, next it becomes sensual, afterwards it becomes natural, like the same love with other animals; but afterwards it may become natural-rational, and from natural-rational, spiritual, and lastly spiritual-natural, 447.  The nature of the love of the sex if it becomes active before marriage, 447.  The results of checking such love, 450.  The love of the sex remains with man after death, 37.  It remains such as it was in its interior quality, that is, such as it had been in his interior will and thought, 46.