WORKHOUSES, infernal, 264.  See also 54, 80, 461.

WORKS are good or bad, according as they proceed from an upright will and thought, or from a depraved will and thought, whatever may be their appearance in externals, 527.  Good works are uses, 10.

WORLD OF SPIRITS, the, is intermediate between heaven and hell, and there the good are prepared for heaven, and the wicked for hell, 48*, 436, 461, 477.  It is in the world of spirits that all men are first collected after their departure out of the natural world, 2, 477.  The good are there prepared for heaven, and the wicked for hell; and after such preparation, they discover ways open for them to societies of their like, with whom they are to live eternally, 10, 477.

WORLD, the natural, subsists from its sun, which is pure fire, 380.  There is not anything in the natural world which is not also in the spiritual world, 182, 207.  In the natural world, almost all are capable of being joined together as to external affections, but not as to internal affections, if these disagree and appear, 272.

WORLD, the spiritual, subsists from its sun, which is pure love, as the natural world subsists from its sun, 380.  In the spiritual world there are not spaces, but appearances of spaces, and these appearances are according to the states of life of the inhabitants, 50.  All things there appear according to correspondences, 76.  All who, from the beginning of creation have departed by death out of the natural world, are in the spiritual world, and as to their loves, resemble what they were when alive in the natural world, and continue such to eternity, 73.  In the spiritual world there are all such things there as there are on earth, and those things in the heavens are infinitely more perfect, 182.

Obs.—­The spiritual world in general comprehends heaven, the world of spirits, and hell.

WORMS.—­Wonders concerning them, 418.  Silk-worms, 420.

WORSHIP, the, of God in heaven returns at stated periods, and lasts about two hours, 23.

WRATH.—­If love, especially the ruling love, be touched, there ensues an emotion of the mind (animus); if the touch hurts, there ensues wrath, 358.

WRITERS.—­The most ancient writers, whose works remain to us, do not go back beyond the iron age, 73.  See Writings.

WRITINGS, the, of the most ancient and of the ancient people are not extant:  the writings which exist are those of authors who lived after the ages of gold, silver, and iron, 73.  Writings of some learned authoresses, examined in the spiritual world in the presence of those authoresses, 175.  The writings, which proceed from ingenuity and wit, on account of the elegance and neatness of the style in which they are written, have the appearance of sublimity and erudition, but only in the eyes of those who call all ingenuity by the name of wisdom, 175.  Writing in the heavens, 182, 326.