grow torpid, and decay.”  Again I asked, “What other miracles shall I do?” And a cry was made, “Do such miracles as Moses did in Egypt.”  To this I answered, “Possibly you may harden your hearts against them as Pharaoh and the Egyptians did.”  And reply was made, “We will not.”  But again I said, “Assure me of a certainty, that you will not dance about a golden calf and adore it, as the posterity of Jacob did within a month after they had seen the whole Mount Sinai on fire, and heard Jehovah himself speaking out of the fire, thus after the greatest of all miracles;” (a golden calf in the spiritual sense denotes the pleasure of the flesh;) and reply was made from below, “We will not be like the posterity of Jacob.”  But at that instant I heard it said to them from heaven, “If ye believe not Moses and the prophets,—­that is, the Word of the Lord, ye will not believe from miracles, any more than the sons of Jacob did in the wilderness, nor any more than they believed when they saw with their own eyes the miracles done by the Lord himself, while he was in the world.”

GENERAL INDEX.

PART THE FIRST.

PRELIMINARY RELATIONS RESPECTING THE JOYS OF HEAVEN AND NUPTIALS THERE, n. 1-26.

ON MARRIAGES IN HEAVEN, n. 27-41.

A man lives a man after death, n. 28-31.  In this case a male is a male, and a female a female, n. 32, 33.  Every one’s peculiar love remains with him after death, n. 34-36.  The love of the sex especially remains; and with those who go to heaven, which is the case with all who become spiritual here on earth, conjugial love remains, n. 37, 38.  These things fully confirmed by ocular demonstration, n. 39.  Consequently there are marriages in heaven, n. 40.  Spiritual nuptials are to be understood by the Lord’s words, “After the resurrection they are not given in marriage,” n. 41.

ON THE STATE OF MARRIED PARTNERS AFTER DEATH, n. 45-54.

The love of the sex remains with every man after death, according to its interior quality; that is, such as it had been in his interior will and thought in the world, n. 46, 47.  Conjugial love in like manner remains such as it has been anteriorly; that is, such as it had been in the man’s interior will and thought in the world, n. 48.  Married partners most commonly meet after death, know each other, again associate, and for a time live together:  this is the case in the first state, thus while they are in externals as in the world, n. 47*.  But successively, as they put off their externals and enter into their internals, they perceive what had been the quality of their love and inclination for each other, and consequently whether they can live together or not, n. 48*.  If they can live together, they remain married partners; but if they cannot, they separate, sometimes the husband from the wife, sometimes the wife from the husband, and sometimes each from the