MATERIAL things drag the mind downwards, 13.

  MEDIUM between the Intellectual and the Voluntary, 88.

  MEMBRANE, inner, of the skull, 95[6].

  MEMORY, of spirits of Mercury, 10, 17, 24, 31;
    of spirits of Venus, 107;
    spirits enter into man’s, 11, 13;
    of spirits, 14, 29;
    is permanent after death, 127, 160.

  MERCURY (The planet).  Representation in the Grand Man, 11;
    desire for knowledges, 13;
    conceit, 16, 37;
    deficiency in judgment, 17;
    knowledges alone loved, apart from uses, 6, 18, 101, 139;
    instantaneous judgment 22;
    rapid speech, 22, 23;
    permitted to wander through the universe 6, 24, 25, 101, 139;
    perfection of memory, 35;
    instruction of inhabitants by spirits, 35;
    perception, 39;
    body and clothing, 44;
    apparent size of the sun, 45;
    temperature of the earth, 45.

  MERIT belongs to the Lord alone, 70[5].

  METAPHYSICIANS, 38[2].

  MIDDLE SENSE between the spiritual and the natural man, 102.

  MIND (animus).  All things belonging to the mind are exhibited
          under some natural form in the body, 163.

  MIND (The) (mens) comports itself according to the interior
          state of the body, 58[2].

  MIRACLE of miracles, 135[3].

  MONKS, 169, 172, 173.

  MOONS, 3[2], 42, 112, 126.

  MOST ANCIENT CHURCH was a celestial church, 85.

  MOST ANCIENT PEOPLE, 49;
    spoke by the face and lips, 54[2], 87[3].

  MOST ANCIENT TIMES, 54[2].

  MOTIONS in the other life, 125.

  NAKEDNESS is no shame to those who are chaste, 56, 176.

  NATURAL LIGHT gives no information on spiritual subjects, 114.

  NATURAL MAN, his character, 102[4,5].

  NATURAL AND EXTERNAL SENSE is the ultimate, 122.

  NAVIGATION, 116.

  OLD MAN, apparition of, 76.

  OPPOSITES, their use, 35.

  PALLAS, 38[6].

  PAPERS, printed, 28.

  PERCEPTION, of spirits of Mercury, 89;
    is impaired by conceit, 62[2];
    perception of good from evil, 77;
    is lost in the Christian world, 158[3];
    is rare on our Earth, 169[3].

  PHILOSOPHY, 38[3].

  PLANETS are inhabited, 3;
    their situation in the other life, 42, 86;
    do not appear to any spirit, 105.

  PLURALITY of worlds, 2.

  PREACHER, 157, 158, 161, 162.

  PRESENCE in the other life results from likeness of state, 135.

  PREY, delight of eating, 108.

  PRINCIPAL and instrumental, 159[3].

  PRINTING, art of, 81;
    was for the sake of the Word, 113-122, 136, 155;
    unknown on other earths, 155;
    printed papers seen, 28.