MEATS,—­There are in heaven, as in the world, both meats and drinks, 6.  See Food.

MEDIUMS are conducive to what is first in itself, 98.

MEDIUM, the, of conjunction of the Lord with man, is the Word, 128.

MEDULLARY substance of the brain, 315.

METEOR in the spiritual world, 315.

MIND, the, is intermediate between the soul and the body, 178; although it appears to be in the head, it is actually in the whole body, 178, 260.  The human mind is distinguished into regions, as the world is distinguished into regions as to the atmospheres, 188, 270; the supreme region of the mind is called celestial, the middle region spiritual, and the lowest region natural, 270, 305.  The mind is successively opened from infancy even to extreme old age, 102.  As a man advances from science into intelligence, and from intelligence into wisdom, so also his mind changes its form, 94.  With some, the mind is closed from beneath, and is sometimes twisted as a spire into the adverse principle; with others that principle is not closed, but remains half open above, and with some open, 203.  With men there is an elevation of the mind into superior light, and with women there is an elevation of the mind into superior heat, 188.  The mind of every man, according to his will and consequent understanding, actually dwells in one society of the spiritual world, and intends and thinks in like manner with those who compose the society, 530.  The lower principles of the mind are unchaste, but its higher principles chaste, 302.  Every man has an internal and an external mind, with the wicked the internal mind is insane, and the external is wise; but with the good the internal mind is wise, and from this also the external, 477.  With the ancients, the science of correspondences conjoined the sensual things of the body with the perceptions of the mind, and procured intelligence, 76.

Obs.—­The mind is composed of two faculties which make man to be man, namely, the will and the understanding.  The mind composed of the spiritual will and of the spiritual understanding, is the internal man; it incloses the inmost man or soul (anima), and it is inclosed by the natural mind or external man, composed of the natural will and understanding.  This natural mind, together with a sort of mind still more exterior, called the animus, which is formed by the external affections and inclinations resulting from education, society, and custom, is the external mind.  The whole organized in a perfect human form, is called spirit (spiritus).  The spirit in our world is covered with a terrestrial body, which renders it invisible; but, freed from this body by natural death, it enters the spiritual world, where its spiritual body is perfectly visible and tactile.

MIRACLES.—­Why there are none in the present day, 535.

MIRE.—­In hell lascivious delights are represented under the appearance of mire, &c., 480.