FATHER.—­The Lord in the Word is called Father, 118.  Most fathers, when they come into another life, recollect their children who have died before them, and they are also presented to, and mutually acknowledge, each other, 406.  In what manner spiritual and natural fathers act, 406.  By father and mother, whom man is to leave, Matt. xix. 4, 5, in a spiritual sense, is meant his proprium (self-hood) of will, and proprium of understanding, 194.  See Proprium.

FAVOR, causes of, between married partners, 278, 287, 290.

FEAR.—­In love truly conjugial there is a fear of loss, 318.  This fear resides in the very inmost principles of the mind, 318.

FEASTS.—­There are in heaven, as in the world, both feasts and repasts, 6.

FEMALE.—­See Male and Female.  The female principle is derived from the male, or, the woman was taken out of the man, 32.  The female principle cannot be changed into the male principle, nor the male into the female, 32.  The difference between the essential feminine and masculine principle, 32, 168.  The good of truth, or truth from good, in the female principle, 61, 88, 90.  The female principle consists in perceiving from love, 168, 220.

FEVERS, malignant and pestilential, 253, 470.

FIRE in heaven represents good, 326.

FIRE in the spiritual sense signifies love, 380.  The fire of the angelic sun is divine love, 34.  The fire of the altar and of the candlestick in the tabernacle among the Israelites, represented divine love, 380.  The fire of the natural sun has existed from no other source than from the fire of the spiritual sun, which is divine love, 380.  The fires of the west signify the delusive loves of evil, 77.

FISH.—­In the spiritual world fishes are representative forms, 76.  Every fish corresponds to some quality, 76.

FLAME.—­Celestial love with the angels of heaven appears at a distance as flame; and thus also infernal love appears with the spirits of hell, 359.  Flame in the spiritual world does not burn like flame in the natural world, 359.  Celestial flame in no case bursts out against another, but only defends itself, and defends itself against an evil person, as when he rushes into the fire and is burnt, 365.

FLESH, the, is contrary to the spirit, that is, contrary to the spiritual things of the church, 497.  Combat between the flesh and the spirit, 488.  The flesh is ignorant of the delights of the spirit, 481.  The flesh is not sensible of those things which happen in the flesh, but the spirit perceives them, 440.  What is signified by the words of our Lord, “They are no more twain but one flesh,” 50, 156*, 178, 321.  By “all flesh,” in the Word, is signified every man, 156*.

FLOW FROM, to.—­All that which flows from a subject, and encompasses and environs it, is named a sphere, 386.

FLOW IN, to.—­Every thing which flows in from the Lord into man, flows into his inmost principle, which is the soul, and descends thence into his middle principle, which is the mind, and through this into his ultimate principle, which is the body, 101.  The marriage of good and truth flows thus from the Lord with man, immediately into his soul, and thence proceeds to the principles next succeeding, and through these to the extreme or outermost, 101.