RATIONALITY, spiritual, comes by means of the Word, and of preachings derived therefrom, 293.  Natural, sensual, and corporeal men enjoy, like other men, the powers of rationality, but they use it while they are in externals, and abuse it while in their internals, 498, 499.  Rationality, with devils, proceeds from the glory of the love of self, 269, and also with atheists, who enjoy a more sublime rationality than many others, 269.

RATIONALITY and LIBERTY.—­When man turns himself to the Lord, his rationality and liberty are led by the Lord; but if backwards, from the Lord, his rationality and liberty are led by hell, 437.

REACTION.—­In all conjunction by love there must be action, reception, and reaction, 293.

READ, to.—­While man reads the Word, and collects truths out of it, the Lord adjoins good, 128; but this takes place interiorly with those only who read the Word to the end that they may become wise, 128.

REAL.—­Love and wisdom are collected together in use, and therein become one principle, which is called real, 183.

REASON, human, is such that it understands truths from the light thereof, as though was not heretofore distinguished them, 490.

REASONERS.—­They are named such who never conclude any thing, and make whatever they hear a matter of argument and dispute whether it be so, with perpetual contradiction, 232.  What their fate is in the other life, 232.

REASONINGS, the, of the generality commence merely from effects, and from effects proceed to some consequences thence resulting, and do not commence from causes, and from causes proceed analytically to effects, 385.  Truth does not admit of reasonings, 481.  They favor the delights of the flesh against those of the spirit, 481.

RECEPTION is according to religion, 352.  Without conjunction there is no reception, 341.  See Reaction.

RECIPIENT.—­Man is a recipient of God, and consequently a recipient of love and wisdom from Him, 132.  A recipient becomes an image of God according to reception, 132.

RECIPROCAL principle, the, of conjunction with God, is, that a man should love God, and relish the things which are of God, as from himself, and yet believe that they are of God, 132, 122.  Without such a reciprocal principle conjunction is impossible, 132.

RECTIFICATION.—­The purification of conjugial love may be compared to the purification of natural spirits, effected by chemists, and called rectification, 145.

REFORMED, to be.—­Man is reformed by the understanding, and this is effected by the knowledges of good and truth, and by a rational intuition grounded therein, 495.

REGENERATION is a successive separation from the evils to which man is naturally inclined, 146.  Regeneration is purification from evils, and thereby renovation of life, 525.  The precepts of regeneration are five, 525.  See Precepts.  By regeneration a man is made altogether new as to his spirit, and this is effected by a life according to the Lord’s precepts, 525.