_Obs._--This word signifies to impress with affection either good or
bad.
AFFECTIONS which are merely derivations of the love, form the will, and
make and compose it, 197. Every affection of love belongs to the will,
for what a man loves, that he also wills, 196. Every affection has its
delight, 272. Affections, with the thoughts thence derived, appertain to
the mind, and sensations, with the pleasures thence derived, appertain
to the body, 273. 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. In the spiritual world
all are conjoined as to internal affections, but not according to
external, unless these act in unity with the internal, 273. The
affections according to which wedlock is commonly contracted in the
world, are external, 274; but in that case they are not influenced by
internal affections, which conjoin minds, the bonds of wedlock are
loosed in the house, 275. By internal affections are meant the mutual
inclinations which influence the mind of each of the parties from
heaven; whereas by external affections are meant the inclinations which
influence the mind of each of the parties from the world, 277. The
external affections by death follow the body, and are entombed with it,
those only remaining which cohere with internal principles, 320. Women
were created by the Lord affections of the wisdom of men, 56. Their
affection of wisdom is essential beauty, 56. All the angels are
affections of love in a human form, 42: the ruling affection itself
shines forth from their faces; and from their affection, and according
to it, the kind and quality of their raiment is derived and determined,
42.
AFFLICTION, great, Matt. xxiv. 21, signifies the state of the church
infested by evils and falses, 80.