Index - Arcana Coelestia - 1 #987
987. Nature (Natura), Natural (Naturale).
Every natural is from a spiritual, thence from a celestial, thus from the Lord, 775.
The celestial, spiritual, and natural succeed each other, 880:2.
Actual representatives in nature are from the Lord's influx, 1632.
There are with everyone an internal, a rational, and a natural, 2181.
Concerning the combat of man's rational and natural; and what is the man's quality if the former, or if the latter conquers, 2183:2.
In the natural there are both good and truth, 2184:7.
In universal nature there are representatives of the Lord's kingdom; an example, 2758.
Spiritual things are presented in natural, and correspondences and representations are therefrom, 2987-3002. See # 1300 Representations.
The natural man is the servant, and all things which are therein are services, 3019.
To the natural man pertain scientifics, the imaginative faculty, such things as are principally in childhood, and the natural affections which a man has in common with the brutes, 3020:2.
What the distinction of the natural and rational man is, 3020.
The natural man is the elder of the house, and the administrator, 3020.
The first affection of truth in the natural man is not that of genuine truth, but this comes successively, 3040.
[Concerning] the natural man, see # 1367 Scientifics, and # 1272 Rational.
Washings d. purifications of the external, or natural man; illustrated, 3147.
What the spiritual and the natural man are, or what is the same, the internal and the external: the spiritual man is wise from the light of heaven, and the natural from the light of the world, 3167.
By the fall they were separated, and the natural man exalts himself above the spiritual; wherefore there must be regeneration, 3167.
The Divine Natural of the Lord came forth from the Divine Rational Good by means of the Divine Truth therein, 3283.
The natural is regenerated by means of the rational, and so far as the natural does not fight against the rational it is regenerated, 3286.
The natural is regenerated from rational good as a father, and from rational truth as a mother, 3286, 3288.
The natural consists of good and truth, and its good is called delightful, but its truth is called scientific, 3293.
The natural as to good is interior and exterior; concerning which, 3293; also as to truth it is interior and exterior, 3294.
The truths of the natural are sensual, scientific, and doctrinal; and these follow, 3309, 3310:4.
The doctrinal truths are based upon the scientific truths, and these upon the sensual; otherwise the idea of doctrinals cannot be held, 3310 e.
The good of the rational flows into the good of the natural immediately, and into the truth of the natural mediately; and this is signified by Isaac loved Esau, and Rebekah loved Jacob, 3314, 3573, 3616, 3969:2.
Those things which are in the natural are relatively obscure, 6686.
[%2+] The rational receives truths sooner than the natural, because the natural is to be regenerated by means of influx from the rational, 3321.
Several reasons why the natural is regenerated later, and with more difficulty, than the rational, 3321:3.
Concerning natural good, which is of a fourfold kind, and is extirpated when a man is regenerated, 3469, 3470, 3471. See # 170 Good.
Universal nature is a theatre representative of the Lord's kingdom, and this is a theatre representative of the Lord, 3483.
How perverse the world is, in that at the present time it attributes so much to nature, and nothing to the Lord, 3483.
The rational is regenerated sooner than the natural; why, 3493.
The rational appears to itself to see nothing, unless the natural corresponds, 3493:2, 3620, 3623.
The rational is distinct from the natural, so much so that the rational can exist apart from the natural life, but not the natural without the rational life, 3498.
To man, while he lives in the body, it appears as if the rational lived in the natural; and the rational does not appear distinct from the natural, 3498:2.
In the natural there are general things, in the rational their particulars; and the natural is formed from the particulars of the rational, 3513.
The distinction between natural good and the good of the natural; the former is from parents, the latter from the Lord, 3518.
The natural is as a body, the end in the rational is as a soul, and the things which are in the natural are relatively as the body of their soul, 3570:3.
From the inmost good of the rational the goods and truths in the natural come forth, 3576. Concerning this See # 1622 Truth, and # 1286 Regeneration.
It is the rational whence the seeds of good and truth are, and the natural whence the ground is, 3671.
The rational man thinks in the natural; concerning which, 3679:2. See # 279 Thought.
Man is so created that by means of him Divine things of the Lord descend into nature, and from nature, as it were, ascend, 3702.
In the natural of the memory, as in their own ground, are implanted the cognitions of truth and good by means of life, 3762:2.
In the natural there must be a marriage of good and truth; and what it is, 3793; and the natural is interior and exterior, 3793:2.
The natural is opposed to the spiritual; illustrated, 3913:3, 3928.
Temptation is combat between the natural and the spiritual man, 3927, 3928.
The natural communicates on the one part through sensual things with the world, and on the other part through rational things with heaven; and there are communicating intermediates, 4009.
In man there are three things: the corporeal, the natural, and the rational; and they communicate, 4038.
They who have only a natural idea respecting spiritual things, and who have a sensual idea; and they do not acknowledge spiritual things, 4046.
All things in the natural are arranged according to ends; concerning which, 4104:4.
The natural is the ultimate of order, 4240.
The natural is external, middle, and internal; concerning which, 4570:2.
Unless the natural is regenerated, the rational cannot produce anything of truth and good, 4588.
The rational receives truths and goods sooner than the natural, 4612:2.
The natural must be regenerated before it can he conjoined to the rational; the reason, 4612:4.
The rational lives in the natural; illustrated, 4618:3.
[%3+] Nature, the Natural
A stench of teeth, and the odor of burnt bone are smelt from those who are altogether natural, 4630.
The natural are unseen; who they are, 4630.
The natural is beneath the rational; and if they harmonize, the natural is nothing but the formation of those things which are in the rational as being common, 4667:2.
The natural dwell beneath the feet and soles, where the lower earth is, 4940-4951.
Concerning those who ascribe all things to nature, and nothing to the Divine, 4941.
The largest part of Christians are sent into the lower earth, because they are natural, 4944.
They who ascribe all things to nature, and speak of a Supreme Being, cannot have an idea of a living Deity, 4950.
Nature is a theatre representative of the Lord's kingdom, because spiritual and celestial things terminate there, 4939.
Celestial things are the head, spiritual things the body, and natural things the feet; and thus they succeed and flow in, 4938, 4939.
Natural good and truth are of a twofold origin-from hereditary nature and from doctrine; the former is good and truth, natural not spiritual; but the latter is good and truth natural-spiritual; illustrated, 4988:2, 4992.
The merely natural sicken at those things which belong to heaven, and at the bare mention of spiritual things; from experience, 5006:2.
Spiritual truth agrees with natural truth in ultimates; and then there is not conjunction, but only affinity; illustrated, 5008, 5028.
The natural do not regard spiritual good and truth but as a servant, 5013, 5025.
The spiritual is prior, and the natural posterior; illustrated, 5013.
Concerning those who are in natural good and not at the same time in spiritual good; and their lot in the other life, relatively to those who are in spiritual good; or in good from religion; concerning which, 5032.
Why all things are attributed to nature and hardly anything to the Divine, illustrated, 5116
The natural is interior and exterior; and the interior communicates with the rational, and the exterior with the world, 5118, 5126.
With man there is a rational and a natural; the former is internal, the latter external, 5150:2.
The natural, especially the interior, is a plane and as it were a surface in which the interiors see themselves; and otherwise a man could not think, 5165:2.
Unless this natural is subordinate, and thus in correspondence, the interior man cannot think, thus cannot believe anything, nor have faith, 5168:2.
There is an endeavor in natural things from the spiritual world, without which nothing would exist that does exist, 5173:2.
The natural does not look forward to, and do anything from itself (although it so appears), but from the interior, 5286.
By the natural simply spoken of is to be understood the natural mind, 5301.
The natural is constituted of the spiritual with the regenerated, as effect is of cause 5326.
Concerning the obedience of the natural; it then exists when it looks to heaven, not to the world, 5368.
Nothing appears to the natural man that is in the spiritual, unless there is a correspondence and medium; and conversely all things which are in the natural appear to the spiritual, 5427, 5428:2, 5477.
What the natural is exteriorly and interiorly; illustrated, 5497.
They who are purely natural have something hairy in the place of a face, 5571.
Concerning the Dutch; some of them are purely natural, 5573.
The natural is interior and exterior; and man does not know this, but angelic societies know it well, 5649:3.
The natural is a plane in which influx terminates, therefore the old must be subjugated, and the new is given, when the man is regenerated, which is the spiritual-natural, 5651:2.
In the interior there are thousands and thousands of things which appear as one in the exterior, 5707:2.
The natural is in the light of the world; the spiritual, in the light of heaven; the former is the external of the Church, the latter is the internal, 5965.
That the natural of man may live there must be an immediate influx from the Lord, and a mediate influx by means of the spiritual world, 6063:2.
They who do good from natural good, and not from religious doctrine, cannot be saved; concerning whom, 6208; they have no conscience into which angels flow, 6208.
The internal lives in the natural man, but it clothes itself with those things by means of which it can accomplish the effect in a lower sphere, 6275, 6284; illustrated, 6299:2.
The natural must necessarily be regenerated that influx may be through the internal, otherwise the internal is closed, 6299:3.
Concerning the subjugation of the natural, 6567. See # 1286 Regeneration.
Those things which are in the natural are relatively obscure, 6686.
A life according to natural good does not save, but a life according to the precepts of faith and charity, 7197.
The whole natural is in falsity and evil in its outermost things, and there are no truths there, 7645.
The quality of those who do good from natural disposition alone; they cannot be in heaven, 8002.
Concerning faith merely natural; it is sensual faith, the faith of miracles and authority, and is not of the Lord; but the truth of innocence is therein, 8078.
Whatever there is in nature had its rise and origin from those things which are in the spiritual world; shown, 8211:2. Concerning the regeneration of the natural man, 8742-8747.
The quality of the natural man not regenerated, and the quality of him regenerated, 8744, 8745. See # 1286 Regeneration.
The life of the natural, although in good, does not give salvation, but the life of faith, which is spiritual life; illustrated, 8772.
Neither from the light of nature, nor from natural theology is anything known respecting God and heaven; but all things are known from revelation; illustrated, 8944.
Man is not regenerated until the natural is, 9043, 9046 e, 9061.
The natural man separated from the internal cannot endure a spiritual sphere, 9109.
The natural is interior, exterior, or middle, and outermost; and interior things cease and are at rest in exterior; they also have a connection with exterior things, 9216.
[%4+] All things in nature represent and correspond; references, 9280. See # 1300 Representation, and # 334 Correspondence.
There must be a correspondence of the natural man with the spiritual, or internal, that man may be regenerated; and a man is not regenerated until the natural is regenerated; references, 9325 e.
Whence it is that the internal man is called spiritual, and the external, natural, 9383.
Purifications and evacuations of the internal man take place in the natural; illustrated, 9572.
Concerning the internal and external man, or the natural and spiritual man, 9701-9709. See # 720 Internal.
The order follows as the celestial, spiritual, and natural; concerning which, 9992, 10005.The celestial, spiritual, and natural, or the good of love, of charity, and of faith, follow each other in order, 4938, 4939, 9992, 10005, 10017, 10068.
Representatives in nature relate to the human form; illustrated, 10185.
