WILL and UNDERSTANDING.—­The will is the man himself, and the understanding is the man as grounded in the will, 490.  The life of man essentially is his will, and formally is his understanding, 493.  The will is the receptacle of good, and the understanding is the receptacle of truth, 121.  Love, charity, and affection, belong to the will, and perception and thought to the understanding, 121.  All things which are done by a man are done from his will and understanding, and without these acting principles a man would not have either action or speech, otherwise than as a machine, 527.  Whoever conjoins to himself the will of another, conjoins also to himself his understanding, 196.  The understanding is not so constant in its thoughts as the will is in its affections, 221.  He that does not discriminate between will and understanding, cannot discriminate between evils and goods. 490.  The will alone of itself acts nothing, but whatever it acts, it acts by the understanding, and the understanding alone of itself acts nothing, but whatever it acts, it acts from the will, 490.  With every man the understanding is capable of being elevated according to knowledges, but the will only by a life according to the truths of the church, 269.  The natural man can elevate his understanding into the light of heaven, and think and discourse spiritually, but if the will at the same time does not follow the understanding, he is still not elevated, for he does not remain in that elevation, but in a short time he lets himself down to his will, and there fixes his station, 347, 495.  The will flows into the understanding, but not the understanding into the will, yet the understanding teaches what is good and evil, and consults with the will, that out of those two principles it may choose, and do what is agreeable to it, 490.  The will of the wife conjoins itself with the understanding of the man, and thence the understanding of the man with the will of the wife, 159.  In adultery of the reason, the understanding acts from within, and the will from without, but in adultery of the will, the will acts from within, and the understanding from without, 490.

WISDOM is nothing but a form of love, 493.  It is a principle of life, 130.  Wisdom, considered in its fulness, is a principle, at the same time, of knowledges, of reason, and of life, 130.  What wisdom is as a principle of life, 130, 293.  Wisdom consists of truths, 84.  The understanding is the receptacle of wisdom, 400.  The abode of wisdom is in use, 18.  Wisdom cannot exist with a man but by means of the love of growing wise, 88.  Wisdom with men is twofold, rational and moral; their rational wisdom is of the understanding alone, and their moral wisdom is of the understanding and life together, 163, 293.  Rational wisdom regards the truths and goods which appear inwardly in man, not as its own, but as flowing in from the Lord, 102.  Moral wisdom shuns evils and falses as leprosies, especially the evils of lasciviousness, which contaminate