SINCERITY is one of those virtues which have respect to life, and enter into it, 164.

SINGING in heaven, 55, 155*.

SIRENS, fantastic beauty of, in the spiritual world, 505.

SISTERS.—­The Lord calls those brethren and sisters who are of his church, 120.

SIX.—­The number six signifies all and what is complete, 21.

SLEEP, the, into which Adam fell, when the woman was created, signifies man’s entire ignorance that the wife is formed, and, as it were, created from him, 194.

SLEEP, to, Gen. ii. 21, signifies to be in ignorance, 194.  Sleep in heaven, 19.

SLOTHFUL, to the, in the spiritual world, food is not given, 6.

SMALL-POX, 253, 470.

SMELLING, natural, is grounded in spiritual smelling, which is perception, 220.  The love of knowing those things which float about in the air, grounded in the love of perceiving, is the sense of smelling; and the gratifications proper to it are the various kinds of fragrance, 210.

SOBRIETY is one of those virtues which have respect to life, and enter into it, 164.

SOCIETY, every, in heaven may be considered as one common body, and the constituent angels as the similar parts thereof, from which the common body exists, 10.

SOCRATES, 151*.

SOCRATICS, 153*.

SOLITARY, there is neither good nor solitary truth, but in all cases they are conjoined, 87.

SOLUTIONS and reparations by which every part of man, both interior and exterior, renews itself, 171.

SOMNAMBULISTS act from the impulse of a blind science, the understanding being asleep, 134.

SONS in the Word signify truths conceived in the spiritual man, and born in the natural, 120, 220.  Those who are regenerated by the Lord are called in the Word sons of God, sons of the kingdom, 120.

SONS-IN-LAW, what, and daughters-in-law signify in the Word, 120.

SONGS in heaven, 17, 19.  Heavenly songs are in reality sonorous affections, or affections expressed and modified by sounds, 55.  Singing in heaven is an affection of the mind, which is let forth through the mouth as a tune, 155*.  Affections are expressed by songs, as thoughts are by discourse, 55.

SOPHI.—­The most ancient people did not acknowledge any other wisdom than the wisdom of life, and this was the wisdom of those who were formerly called sophi, 130.

SOUL, the, is the inmost principle of man, 101, 158, 206.  It is not life, but the proximate receptacle of life from God, and thereby the habitation of God, 315.  It is a form of all things relating to love, and of all things relating to wisdom, 315.  It is a form from which the smallest thing cannot be taken away, and to which the smallest thing cannot be added, and it is the inmost of all the forms of the whole body, 315.  Propagation of the soul, 220, 245.  The soul of the offspring is from the father, and its clothing from the mother, 206, 288.