Ancient Churches Lexicon
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All subjects covered in the Ancient Churches Project database and lexicon are listed below in alphabetical order. Lexicon entries are placed on line as soon as they reach second draft form; these appear underlined (hypertexted). The list of passages from Swedenborg's theological works at the end of each lexicon entry comes from the Ancient Churches Project database; these works are referred to with standardized abbreviations.
Alphabetical Index
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
- A
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- Abel (see Cain)
- Adah and Zillah
- Adam
- Advent of the Lord
- Altars
- Anakim (see Antediluvians)
- Ancient Heavens and Hells
- Ancient Word
- Anointings
- Antediluvians
- Appearance (see Faces)
- B
- top
- Balaam
- Burnt Offerings (see Sacrifices)
- C
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- Cain
- Canaan, Land of
- Canaan, Son of Ham
- Charity
- Circumcision
- Cities
- Communication with the Spiritual World
- Conjugial Love
- Conscience
- Consummation (see Last Judgments)
- Correspondences
- Cupidities (see Evil Desires)
- Cush
- D
- top
- Dancing
- Disposition
- Diviners (see Magic)
- Doctrine
- Dreams (see Visions and Dreams)
- E
- top
- Eber
- Egypt
- Enoch, Son of Cain
- Enoch Who Walked with God
- Enosh
- Eve (see Adam)
- Evil Desires
- F
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- Fables (seeMyths)
- Faces
- Faith
- Fall, The
- Families
- Flood
- Food
- Four Ages
- G
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- Genealogy (see Writing)
- Generations (see Posterities)
- Gentiles
- Great Tartary (see Tartary)
- Greece and Rome
- H
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- Hair (see Faces)
- Ham
- Heathen (see Gentiles)
- Heaven (see Ancient Heavens and Hells)
- Hebrew Church (see Eber)
- Hell (see Ancient Heavens and Hells)
- Hereditary Evil
- Heredity
- Heresy
- Heth (see Hittites)
- Hieroglyphics
- History (see Writing)
- Hittites
- Houses
- I
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- Idioms
- Idolatry
- Influx
- Irad
- J
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- Japheth
- Jared
- Job
- Jehovah (see Names of the Lord)
- Jove (see Names of the Lord)
- Jude
- Judgments (see Last Judgments)
- K
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- Kenan
- L
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- Lamech
- Language
- Last Judgments
- Law
- Lord (see Names of the Lord)
- M
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- Magi (see Magic)
- Magic
- Mahalalel
- Marriage
- Mehujael
- Melchizedek
- Mercy
- Methuselah
- Methushael
- Monarchs
- Music
- Myths
- N
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- Names
- Names of the Lord
- Nations
- Nebuchadnezzar's Statue
- Nephilim (see Antediluvians)
- Nimrod (see Cush)
- Noah
- Numbers
- O
- top
- P
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- Perception
- Persuasions
- Physiques (see Faces)
- Polytheism
- Postdiluvians
- Posterities
- Pre-Adamites
- Priests
- Profanation
- Proprium
- Q
- top
- R
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- Ratiocination (see Rational)
- Rational
- Reformation
- Regeneration
- Remnants
- Remnants (individual) (see Antediluvians)
- Rephaim (see Antediluvians)
- Representatives
- Respiration
- Revelations
- Rite (see Rituals)
- Rituals
- Rome (see Greece and Rome)
- S
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- Sacred Fire
- Sacrifices
- Sacrilege
- Sages
- Schism (see Heresy)
- Second Ancient Church (see Eber)
- Seeds
- Seth
- Shem
- Significatives
- Soul
- Speech
- Syria
- T
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- Tabernacle (see Tents and Tabernacles)
- Tartary
- Temples
- Temptations
- Tents and Tabernacles
- U
- top
- V
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- Vastation (see Last Judgments)
- Vestals
- Visions and Dreams
- Visitation (see Last Judgments)
- W
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- Washings
- Will and Understanding
- Word, The
- Worship
- Worship of Humans as Gods
- Writing
- X
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- Y
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- Z
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- Zillah (see Adah and Zillah)