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“The mind properly so called is spiritual, but the animus is purely natural, and can be said to be corporeal in that it is directly affected by the harmonies of the corporeal senses and flows directly into the countenance of the body and the forms of corporeal actions. … the animus is defined as “the form of the material ideas of our common sensory” (285), or as “the universal affection of the sensory, (so) that affections taken together constitute the animus” (ibid.), or as “the life of sensations” (289:e), … all the affections of the animus are essentially animal in nature, for they are all closely related to the body. … The following selection from Swedenborg's list will suggest the type of affections that the animus may experience: Gladness; sadness; venereal love; love of parents toward children; love of society and country; love towards companions, and friendship; love of self; ambition; humility in the sense of contempt of self; depression; hope; despair; love of the world and the body.” (Erik Sandstrom, https://swedenborg-philosophy.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/1966-Vol-69-No-4-October-December_Part4.pdf) (Swedenborg Scientific Association)