pigeons and turtledoves, were devoted to a sacred use in the
Israelitish Church, which was a representative church, and sacrifices
and burnt offerings were made of them. For they correspond in that
use to spiritual things, and in heaven these were understood in
accordance with the correspondences. Moreover, animals according to
their kinds and species, because they have life, are affections; and
the life of each one is solely from affection and in accordance with
affection; consequently every animal has an innate knowledge that is
in accord with its life's affection. Man is like an animal so far as
his natural man is concerned, and is therefore likened to animals in
common speech; for example, if he is gentle he is called a sheep or
lamb, if fierce a bear or wolf, if cunning a fox or serpent, and so
on.

{Footnote 1} From correspondence animals signify affections;
mild and useful animals good affections, fierce and useless
ones evil affections (n. 41, 45, 46, 142, 143, 246, 714, 716,
719, 2179, 2180, 3519, 9280); illustrated by experience from
the spiritual world (n. 3218, 5198, 9090). Influx of the
spiritual world into the lives of animals (n. 1633, 3646).
Cattle and their young from correspondence signify affections
of the natural mind (n. 2180, 2566, 9391, 10132, 10407). What
sheep signify (n. 4169, 4809); and lambs (n. 3994, 10132).
Flying creatures signify intellectual things (n. 40, 745, 776,
778, 866, 988, 991, 5149, 7441); with a difference according to
their genera and species, from experience in the spiritual
world (n. 3219).


111. There is a like correspondence with things in the vegetable