REGIONS of the mind.—­In human minds there are three regions, of which the highest is called the celestial, the middle the spiritual, and the lowest the natural, 305.  In the lowest man is born; he ascends into the next above it by a life according to the truths of religion, and into the highest by the marriage of love and wisdom, 305.  In the lowest region dwells natural love, in the superior spiritual love, and in the supreme celestial love, 270.  In each region there is a marriage of love and wisdom, 270.  The pleasantnesses of conjugial love in the highest region are perceived as blessednesses, in the middle region as satisfactions, and in the lowest region as delights, 335.  In the lowest region reside all the concupiscences of evil and of lasciviousness; in the superior region there are not any concupiscences of evil and of lasciviousness, for man is introduced into this region by the Lord when he is reborn; in the supreme region is conjugial chastity in its love, into this region man is elevated by the love of uses, 305.

REIGN, to, with Christ is to be wise, and perform uses, 7.

RELATION, there is no, of good to evil, but a relation of good to a greater and less good, and of evil to a greater and less evil, 444.  What is signified by the expression, for the sake of relatives, 17.

RELATIVES subsist between the greatest and the least of the same thing, 425, 17.

RELIGION constitutes the state of the church with man, 238.  Religion is implanted in souls, and by souls is transmitted from parents to their offspring, as the supreme inclination, 246.  With Christians it is formed by the good of life, agreeable to the truth of doctrine, 115.  Conjugial love is grounded in religion, 238.  Where there is not religion, neither is there conjugial love, 239.  There is no religion without the truths of religion; what is religion without truths, 239.  Religion, as it is the marriage of the Lord and the church, is the initiament and inoculation of conjugial love, 531.  That love in its progress accompanies religion, 531.  The first internal cause of cold in marriages is the rejection of religion by each of the parties, 240.  The second cause is, that one has religion and not the other, 241.  The third is, that one of the parties is of one religion, and the other of another, 242.  The fourth is the falsity of religion, 243.

Obs.—­There is a difference which it is important to bear in mind, between religion and the church; the church of the Lord, it is true, is universal, and is with all those who acknowledge a Divine Being, and live in charity whatever else may be their creed; but the church is especially where the Word is, and where by means of the Word the Lord is known.  In the countries where the Word does not exist, or is withdrawn from the people and replaced by human decisions, as among the Roman Catholics, there is religion alone, but there is, to speak correctly, no church.  Among Protestants, there is both religion and a church, but this church has come to an end, because it has perverted the Word.