body, should be an instrument of use in the society to which he belongs, 7.  To such as faithfully perform uses, the Lord gives the love thereof, 7.  So far as uses are done from the love thereof, so far that love increases, 266.  The use of conjugial love is the most excellent of all uses, 183, 305.  Conjugial love is according to the love of growing wise, for the sake of uses from the Lord, 183.  How can any one know whether he performs uses from self-love, or from the love of uses? 266.  Every one who believes in the Lord, and shuns evils as sins, performs uses from the Lord; but every one who neither believes in the Lord, nor shuns evils as sins, does uses from self, and for the sake of self, 266.  All good uses in the heavens are splendid and refulgent, 266.  Blessed lot of those who are desirous to have dominion from the love of uses, 266.

Obs.—­Use consists in fulfilling faithfully, sincerely, and carefully, the duties of our functions, T.C.R., 744.  Those things are called uses which, proceeding from the Lord, are by creation in order, D.L. and W., 298.

USES of apparent love and friendship between married partners, for the sake of preserving order in domestic affairs, 271, and following, 283.

UTILITY of apparent love and apparent friendship between married partners, for the sake of preserving order in domestic affairs, 271, and following, 283.

VAPOR.—­From reason it may be seen that the soul of man after death is not a mere vapor, 29.

VARIETY.—­There is a perpetual variety, and there is not any thing the same with another thing, 524.  Heaven consists of perpetual varieties, 524.  Distinction between varieties and diversities, 324.  See Diversities.

VEGETABLES.—­Wonders in the productions of vegetables, 416.

VEIN.—­There is a certain vein latent in the affection of the will of every angel which attracts his mind to the execution of some purpose, 6.  Vein of conjugial love, 44, 68, 183, 293, 313, 433, 482.

VENTRICLES of the brain, 315.

VERNAL, the, principle exists only where warmth is equally united to light, 137.  With men (homines) there is a perpetual influx of vernal warmth from the Lord, it is otherwise with animals, 137.  In heaven, where there is vernal warmth, there is love truly conjugial, 137.

VIOLATION of spiritual marriage, 515-520.  Violation of spiritual marriage is violation of the Word, 516.  Violation of the Word is adulteration of good, and falsification of truth, 517.  This violation of the Word corresponds to scortations and adulteries, 518.  By whom, in the Christian church, violation of the Word is committed, 519.

VIRGINITY.—­Fate of those who have vowed perpetual virginity, 155, 460, 503.

VIRGINS, 21, 22, 293, 321, 502, 511.  The affection of truth is called a virgin, 293.  The virgins (Matt. xxv. 1) signify the church, 21.  Quality of the state of virgins before and after marriage in heaven, 502.  Virgins of the fountain, 207, 293.  The nine virgins, or muses, signify knowledge and science of every kind, 182.  How a virgin is formed into a wife, 199.