earances, because, corresponding to the interiors of spirits
and of angels, they vary according to the states of those interiors.
There are real appearances and appearances unreal; the unreal
appearances are those which do not correspond to the interiors. See
_Heaven and Hell_.

APPROPRIATION of evil how it is effected, 489.

ARCANA of wisdom respecting conjugial love; it is important that they
should be discovered, 43. Arcana of conjugial love concealed with wives,
166, 155*, 293. Arcanum relative to conception, which takes place though
the souls of two married partners be disjoined, 245. Arcanum respecting
the actual habitation of every man in some society, either of heaven or
hell, 530. Arcana known to the ancients, and at this day lost, 220.
Arcana revealed, which exceed in excellence all the arcana heretofore
revealed since the beginning of the church, 532. These arcana are yet
reputed on earth as of no value, 533.

ARCHITECTONIC ART, the, is in its essential perfection in heaven, and
hence are derived all the rules of that art in the world, 12.

ARISTIPPUS, 151*.

ARISTOTLE, 151*.

ARMIES of the Lord Jehovah. Thus the most ancient people called
themselves, 75.

ARTIFICERS in the spiritual world, 207: wonderful works which they
execute there, 207.

AS FROM HIMSELF, 132, 134, 269, 340.

ASSAULT.--How love defends itself when assaulted, 361.

ASSES.--Of those who, in the spiritual world, appear at a distance like
asses heavily laden, 232. Blazing ass upon which a pope was seated in
hell, 265.

ASSOCIATE, to.--All in the heavens are associated according to
affinities and relationships of love, and have habitations accordingly,
50.

ASTRONOMY is one of those sciences by which an entrance is made into
things rational, which are the ground of rational wisdom, 163.

ATHEISTS, who are in the glory of reputation arising from self-love, and
thence in a high conceit of their own intelligence, enjoy a more sublime
rationality than many others; the reason why, 269. Why the understanding
of atheists, in spiritual light, appeared open beneath but closed above,
421.

ATHENAEUM, city of, in the spiritual world, 151*, 182, 207. Sports of
the Athenaeides, 207. These games were spiritual exercises, 207.

ATMOSPHERES.--The world is distinguished into regions as to the
atmospheres, the lowest of which is the watery, the next above is the
aerial, and still higher is the etherial, above which there is also the
highest