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Darkness [tenebrae]. Darkness and thick darkness signify falsities n. 110, 695. They also signify ignorance, n. 110. Darkness signifies falsities either arising from ignorance, or from falsities of religion, or from evils of life, shown n. 413.
David [David]. By David is meant the Lord as to Divine truth, n. 174, 266.
Daughter [filia] See Son.
Day [dies]. Day and night signify at all times in every state, thus perpetually, n. 637. Day and night from light signify the spiritual truth and natural truth of the Word illustrated and shown n. 414. The great day of Jehovah signifies the coming of the Lord, and then the establishment of the new church, n. 704, 707. Day signifies the end of the former church, shown n. 707.
Death, Dead [mors, mortuus]. Death signifies various things; it signifies extinction of natural life, which is death; it signifies extinction of spiritual life, which is damnation; it signifies extinction of lusts, which is the crucifixion of the flesh, and thus a renewal of life; it signifies resurrection; it signifies a rejection by the world; it signifies the devil and hell, and thence evil of the will, n. 866. Death signifies extinction of spiritual life, and hell damnation, shown n. 321. The first death signifies departure out of the world, and the second death damnation, n. 106, illustrated n. 853, 873, 894. The first death is not mentioned in Revelation, n. 853. Death also signifies the life of man’s self-love, because this love extinguishes spiritual life, n. 323. The dead signify the same things as death, n. 856. The dead signify dead out of the world, shown n. 525, 868, 869. The dead signify those who are in natural life without spiritual life, n. 159. The dead signify those who have not any spiritual life, shown n. 525. The dead signify those who are interiorly devils, n. 870, 872. The dead signify those who have crucified the flesh, and have suffered temptations, shown n. 639. The dead signify those who are rejected by the evil, n. 847, 850, 866. Dead, when spoken of the Lord, signifies to be neglected, and his human not acknowledged as Divine, n. 59, 93, 269. Concerning dead worship, see Worship.
Decalogue [decalogus]. The commandments of the Decalogue were promulgated by Jehovah, and were not only precepts of society, but also of religion, illustrated n. 529. The commandments of the Decalogue are in Every religion, and man should live according to them from religion, n. 272. Wonderful things concerning the Decalogue and concerning the ark from the Word, and that thence it may be seen that the Decalogue is most holy illustrated and shown n. 529. The first step to reformation is to live according to the commandments of the Decalogue, n. 628. Through a life according to the commandments of the Decalogue conjunction is effected with the Lord, illustrated n. 490. The second table of the Decalogue is the whole doctrine of repentance, illustrated n. 531 at the end, n. 461. The Decalogue is called the testimony, shown n. 490, shown 669. The second table of the Decalogue is a blank table to those who are in faith alone, n. 461. An answer from heaven to those who believed and asserted that by the works of the law, from whose damnation through faith they are exempt, are understood the works of the law of the Decalogue, n. 578. The temple of the tabernacle of the testimony signifies where the Lord is in his holiness in the Word, and in the law, which is the Decalogue, n. 669.
Deceit [dolus]. A lie signifies falsity and false speaking, and that deceit signifies both from design because deceit and cunning proposes something to itself, illustrated and shown n. 624.
Degree [gradus]. That there are three degrees of love and wisdom or of good and truth in the Lord, who is infinite, which are called celestial, spiritual, and natural, and that hence there are three degrees in the heavens, and also in man from creation, n. 49, illustrated n. 774. The church of the Lord is distinguished into those three degrees, n. 774. See Church.
Demon, or Devil [daemon, daemonium]. Demons and devils signify lusts from the love of the world, and such as are in those lusts become demons after death, illustrated and shown n. 458. They signify cupidities of falsifying truths, n. 703, 756. They become demons of the worst kind who were in the lusts of exercising dominion from the love of self over the holy things of the church, n. 756.
Den [spelunca]. They who had been in evil loves are in hell in dens, hence dens signify evil loves, illustrated and shown n. 338.
Desert [solitudo]. See Wilderness.
Destroyer, Perdition [perditor, perditio]. Abaddon and Apollyon signify a destroyer and perdition; destroyer and perdition signify the destruction of the church by the total falsification of the Word, shown n. 440.
Devastation [devastatio]. See Consummation.
Devil [diabolus]. The hell where they are who are in evils as to life, properly who are in self-love, is called in one expression the devil, because all who are there are called devils, the hell where they are who are in falsities as to doctrine, properly who are in the pride of self-derived intelligence, is called in one expression satan, because all who are there are called satans, n. 97, 550, 841, 856, illustrated n. 153. The depths of satan signifies the interiors of faith separated from charity, n. 143. The throne of satan signifies where there are falsities, and thence spiritual darkness, n. 110. In every religion it is known that there is a God from whom proceeds good, and that there is a devil from whom proceeds evil, and that therefore good is to be done and evil shunned, n. 272, illustrated n. 675.
Diadem [diadema]. See Stone, and Precious Stone.
Doctrine [doctrina]. Worship is according to doctrine, n. 777, 778.
Dog [canis]. Dogs signify corporeal appetite, principally the pleasure of eating and drinking, illustrated and shown n. 952.
Door [janua]. Gates [portis] signify knowledges of what is true and good out of the Word, by which man is introduced into the church, consequently introducing truths shown n. 899, 901, 916. There are actually doors in the spiritual world, which are opened and shut to those who ascend to heaven, and that therefore they signify entrance or admission, shown n. 176,177. The Lord alone opens and shuts the doors there, n. 177. Doors signify admission and introduction n. 217. The Lord is the door by which man is to enter that he may be saved, shown n. 916.
Double, and to Double [duplum, et duplicare]. They signify to be done according to quantity and quality, shown n. 762.
Dragon [draco]. The dragon signifies those who make God three, and the Lord two, and who separate charity and faith, and make the latter saving and not the former, illustrated n. 537. Dragon signifies the devastation of the church, shown n. 537. They who are meant by the dragon will persecute the new church of the Lord, and, as far as possible, will seduce them, illustrated and shown n. 884. The reason why the dragon is called the old serpent, the devil, and satan, n. 841, 856. What is signified by the dragon being bound one thousand years, n. 842. Concerning the sports of the dragon, and concerning the besieging of a city by them, illustrated n. 655.
Drink Offering, or Libation [libamen]. See Wine.
Drunkenness [ebrietas]. To be made drunk with the wine of whoredom or of Babylon, also simply to be made drunk, signifies to be infatuated or insane with regard to spiritual things, shown n. 721.
Dust [pulvis]. Dust signifies what is damned, shown n. 778. To cast dust on the head signifies interior grief and mourning on account of damnation, shown n. 778.
Dwell, to [habitare]. To dwell is spoken of good, n. 380. To dwell and to cohabit signifies conjunction proceeding from love, illustrated n. 883. By the Lord’s being said to dwell with them is signified that he is in them, and they in him, consequently conjunction, n. 883.
