all is the conjugial sphere, because this is the supereminent sphere of conservation of the created universe, 222.  This sphere fills the universe, and pervades all things from first to last, 222; thus from angels even to worms, 92.  Why it is more universal than the sphere of heat and light which proceed from the sun, 222.  In its origin, the conjugial sphere, flowing into the universe, is divine; in its progress in heaven with the angels, it is celestial and spiritual; with men it is natural; with beasts and birds, animal; with worms merely corporeal; with vegetables, it is void of life; and, moreover, in all its subjects it is varied according to their forms, 225.  This sphere is received immediately by the female sex, and mediately by the male, 225.  The sphere of conjugial love is the very essential sphere of heaven, because it descends from the heavenly marriage of the Lord and the church, 54.  Whereas there is a sphere of conjugial love, there is also a sphere opposite to it, which is called a sphere of adulterous love, 434.  This sphere ascends from hell, and the sphere of conjugial love descends from heaven, 435, 455.  These spheres meet each other in each world, but do not conjoin, 436, 455.  Between these two spheres there is equilibrium, and man is in it, 437, 455.  Man can turn himself to whichever sphere he pleases; but so far as he turns himself to the one, so far he turns himself from the other, 438, 455.  A sphere of love from the wife, and of understanding from the man, is continually flowing forth, and unites them, 321.  A natural sphere is continually flowing forth, not only from man, but also from beasts—­yea, from trees, fruits, flowers, and also from metals, 171.  There flows forth—­yea, overflows from every man (homo)—­a spiritual sphere, derived from the affections of his love, which encompasses him, and infuses itself into the natural sphere derived from the body, so that these two spheres are conjoined, 171.  Every one, both man and woman, is encompassed by his own sphere of life, densely on the breast, and less densely on the back, 224.

SPIRE.—­With whom the mind is closed from beneath, and sometimes twisted as a spire into the adverse principle, 203.

SPIRIT, the.—­There are two principles which, in the beginning, with every man who from natural is made spiritual, are at strife together, which are commonly called the spirit and the flesh, 488.  The love of marriage is of the spirit, and the love of adultery is of the flesh, 488.  See Flesh.

SPIRITS.—­See Mind, obs.  By novitiate spirits are meant men newly deceased, who are called spirits because they are then spiritual men, 461.  Who those are, who, after death, become corporeal spirits, 495.