Index - Arcana Coelestia - 1 # 279
279. Think (Cogitare), [*Thought (Cogitatio).] See # 669 Idea.
Spirits think perspicuously, 322:2.
Some believed the spirit or the soul to be only abstract thought; an example, 444, 445.
In every idea of thought there is something relative to the will and at the same time relative to the understanding, 590.
All evil is from hell, all good from the Lord; such is the influx of all things into thought, 904:3.
The penalty of rending as to thoughts, 962.
The internal man is not thought, 978. See also # 669 Idea.
The speech of spirits is from the ideas of thought, see # 833 Speech, [*and # 669 Idea.]
They who were raised up among angelic spirits saw the interiors of my thoughts, 1769.
The Lord alone thought from Himself, 1904:3, 1914.
Angel [of the third heaven think] from the interior rational; [angels] who have conscience think from the exterior rational; they who have not conscience [think] from the sensual natural and the corporeal, 1914:3.
Perception is something else than thought, and this is from perception, 1919; so it is with conscience; they who have it think from conscience, 1919:2.
Spirits and angels perceive the interiors of a man's thoughts, 1931.
They who have conscience, have interior thought from the Lord, not they who have not conscience, 1935.
Societies are sometimes dissociated as to thoughts and speech; concerning which, 2129.
Thought is from the interior memory, as in the discrete ideas with spirits; and spirits and angels know all things in general and particular; and all things of thought remain, see # 902 Memory.
Thoughts are from perception, from conscience, and from no conscience, 2515, 2552.
Man's thought is wonderful, and it is unknown to him that it is so, 2556.
All changes of state, both as to voluntary and as to intellectual things, are ruled by the Lord through spirits and angels, 2796.
Everything of thought and of will flows in, see # 1658 Life, and # 820 Freedom.
What to meditate in the field s., 3196.
It is the internal, or rational man that thinks, and indeed in the external, or natural; but with a difference, when a man is a man and when he is a spirit; illustrated, 3679:2.
Thoughts are not abstract things, but from the purer substances of man, 3726:3.
Some believe the soul is only thought; concerning which, 4527.
What exterior thought is, and what interior; illustrated, 5127:2.
What a man loves reigns universally in his thought, although he does not know this; illustrated, 5130:2.
Thought is sometimes drawn from the interior rational, and sometimes from the sensual, according to the state, 5141.
[%2+] The exterior natural is a plane in which interior things see themselves as in a face, or in a mirror, and thence there is thought, 5165:2.
Unless the natural is in order, as with the regenerated, the interior man cannot think, thus neither can he have faith, 5168:2.
The thought of a man who is in good is spiritual, according to the internal sense; illustrated, 5614:2.
How difficult it is for a man to believe that spirits know his thoughts, when yet they know the most minute; an experience, 5855.
Thought is interior and exterior, 6007 e.
Evil flowing into thought does not harm, except when it passes into the will; illustrated, 6204.
Spirits know the thoughts; it can be believed only with difficulty; an experience, when yet they know the most particular things in the other life, 6214.
They who think from sensual things perceive little of what is honest, just, and good, 6598, 6612, 6622, 6624
Thought appears to be continuous, when yet it is distinguished into ideas, 6599, [6614, 6622,] 6624.
Thought and affection diffuse themselves into societies round about; an experience, 6600-6603, 6605, 6609, [ 6610].
This is as it is with spheres of rays from objects of the earth, 6601:2.
Thought enters into the general sphere of societies, and so does not move societies in particular, [6600:2,] 6603.
Thought appears like a river, 6606.
Lower thought circulates according to the form of the cineritious [ashy or grey] substance in the brain; and the higher forms, which are in heaven, are incomprehensible, 6607.
The spheres of thought from societies are represented by clouds, 6609, 6614.
With man the ideas of thought vary, are multiplied, and divided, and so variously consociated, 6610.
In the ideas of thought there are innumerable things, 6613-6625. See # 669 Idea.
The ideas of the thought of those who live evilly, and think evilly therefrom, 6625.
Man is insinuated into societies chiefly by means of temptations, 6611.
Thought is active, or speaking, and it is the speech of man's spirit, not comprehensible, because without the vocal sounds of language; and it is passive, 6987.
[%3+] The quality of the heavenly form of thought; clear things are in the middle, obscure things around, and opposite things tend downward, 8885.
Work from thought d. the intellectual; shown, 9598, 9688:2.
A man can hardly distinguish between truth and good, because he can hardly distinguish between thinking and willing, 9995:2.
