MODESTY is one of those virtues which have respect to life, and enter
into it, 164.
MONASTERIES.--What becomes in the other life of those who have been shut
up in monasteries, 54, 155. Virgins devoted to the monastic life, 513.
MONOGAMISTS.--All in heaven live married to one wife, 77.
MONOGAMICAL marriages, 70, 77, 141. They correspond to the marriage of
the Lord and the church, and originate in the marriages of good and
truth, 70.
MONOGAMY.--Why monogamy exists with Christian nations, 337-339.
MOTE.--Wonderful things respecting it, 329.
MOTHER.--The church in the world is called mother, 118, 119.
MORALITY, genuine, is the wisdom of life, 383. Spiritual morality is the
result of a life from the Lord according to the truths of the Word, 293.
MULTIPLICABLE.--Every thing is multiplicable _in infinitum_, 185.
MUNIFICENCE is one of those virtues which have respect to life, and
enter into it, 164.
MUSES, nine, or virgins represent knowledges and sciences of every kind,
182.
NAKEDNESS signifies innocence, 413.
NATURAL, the, derives its origin from the spiritual, 320. Difference
between the natural and spiritual, 326-329. The natural principle is
distinguished into three degrees; the so-called natural, the natural
sensual, and the natural-corporeal, 442. The natural man is nothing but
an abode and receptacle of concupiscences and lusts, 448. There are
three degrees of the natural man, 496. Those who love only the world,
placing their heart in wealth, are properly meant by the natural, 496;
they pour forth into the world all things of the will and understanding,
covetously and fraudulently acquiring wealth, and regarding no other use
therein, and thence but that of possession, 496.
NATURE is the recipient whereby love and wisdom produce their effects or
uses, 380; thus nature is derived from life, and not life from nature,
380. All the parts of nature derive their subsistence and existence from
the sun, 380. Nature is in all time, in time, and in all space, in
space, 328. Nature, with her time and space, must of necessity have a
beginning and a birth, 328. Wherefore nature is from God, not from
eternity, but in time, that is, together with her time and space, 328.
NECESSITY for apparent love and friendship in marriages, for the sake of
order being preserved in houses, 271, and following, 283.