CONCUPISCENCE, concerning, 267. Every one is by truth interiorly in
concupiscence, but by education exteriorly in intelligence, 267.
Interesting particulars concerning concupiscence not visionary or
fantastic, in which all men are born, 269. All the concupiscences of
evil reside in the lowest region of the mind, which is called the
natural; but in the region above, which is called the spiritual, there
are not any concupiscences of evil, 305. In every thing that proceeds
from the natural man there is concupiscence, 448. Imputation of
concupiscence, 455. In the spiritual world every evil concupiscence
presents a likeness of itself in some form, which is not perceived by
those who are in the concupiscence, but by those who are at a distance,
521.
CONFIDENCE, full, is in conjugial love, and is derived from it, 180.
Full confidence relates to the heart, 180.
CONFINES OF HEAVEN.--Those who enter into extra-conjugial life are sent
to their like, on the confines of heaven, 155.
CONFIRM, to.--The understanding alone confirms, and when it confirms it
engages the will to its party, 491. Every one can confirm evil equally
as well as good, in like manner what is false as well as what is true.
The reason why the confirmation of evil is perceived with more delight
than the confirmation of good, and the confirmation of what is false
with greater lucidity than the confirmation of what is true, 491.
Intelligence does not consist in being able to confirm whatever a man
pleases, but in being able to see that what is true is true, and that
what is false is false, 233. Every one may confirm himself in favor of
the divine principle or Being, by the visible things of nature, 416-419.
Those who confirm themselves in favor of a divine principle or Being,
attend to the wonderful things which are conspicuous in the productions
both of vegetables and animals, 416. Those who had confirmed themselves
in favor of nature, by what is visible in this world, so as to become
atheists, appeared in spiritual light with the understanding open
beneath, but closed above, 421.
CONFIRMATIONS are effected by reasonings, which the mind seizes for its
use, deriving them either from its superior region or its inferior, 491.
The form of the human mind is according to confirmations turned towards
heaven, if its confirmations are in favor of marriages, but turned to
hell, if they are in favor of adulteries, 491. Confirmations of
falsities, so as to make them appear like truths, are represented in the
spiritual world under the forms of birds of night, 233. See _To
Confirm_.
CONFIRMATORS.--They are called such in the spiritual world who cannot at
all see whether truth be truth, but yet can make whatever they will to
be truth, 233. Their fate in the other life, 233.
CONJUGIAL PAIRS.--It is provided by the Lord that conjugial pairs be
born, and that these pairs be continually educated for marriage, neither
the maiden nor the youth knowing any thing of the matter, 316.
CONJUGIAL PRINCIPLE, the, of good and truth is implanted from creation
in every soul, and also in the principles derived from the soul, 204.
The conjugial principle fills the universe from first principles to
last, and from a man even to a worm, 204. It is inscribed on the soul,
to the end that soul may be propagated from soul, 236. It is inscribed
on both sexes from inmost principles to ultimates, and a man's quality
as to his thoughts and affections, and consequently as to his bodily
actions and behavior, is according to that principle, 140. In every
substance, even the smallest, there is a conjugial principle, 316. In
the minutest things with man, both male and female, there is a conjugial
principle: still the conjugial principle with the male is different from
what it is with the female, 316. There is implanted in every man from
creation, and consequently from his birth, an internal conjugial
principle, and an external conjugial principle; man comes first into the
latter, and as he becomes spiritual he comes into the former. 148, 188.
Children derive from their parents the conjugial principle of good and
truth, for it is that principle which flows into man from the Lord, and
constitutes his human life, 203. The conjugial human principle ever goes
hand in hand with religion, 80. This conjugial principle is the desire
of living with one wife, and every Christian has this desire according
to his religion, 80. The Christian conjugial principle alone is chaste,
142. By the Christian conjugial principle is meant the marriage of one
man with one wife, 142. The conjugial principle of one man with one
wife, is the storehouse of human life, and the reservoir of the
Christian religion, 457, 458. The conjugial principle is like a scale in
which conjugial love is weighed, 531.
CONJUNCTION.--In every part, and even in every particular, there is a
principle tending to conjunction, 33, 37; it was implanted from
creation, and thence remains perpetually, 37. The conjunctive principle
lies concealed in every part of the male, and in every part of the
female, 37, 46. In the male conjugial principle there is what is
conjunctive with the female conjugial principle, and _vice versa_, even
in the minutest things, 316.
CONJUNCTION of souls and minds by marriage, so that they are no longer
two but one flesh, 156, 181. Spiritual conjunction cannot possibly be
dissolved, 321. How there is a conjunction of the created universe with
its Creator, and by conjunction everlasting conservation, 85. There is
conjunction with the Lord by a life according to his commandments, 341.
There is no conjunction unless it be reciprocal, for conjunction on one
part, and not on the other in its turn, is dissolved of itself, 61.
CONNECTION, the connubial, of what is evil and false is the spiritual
origin of adultery, 428, 520. It is the anti-church, 497. In hell all
are in this _conmibium_, 520.
CONNUBIAL PRINCIPLE, the, of what is evil and false, is the opposite of
the conjugial principle of good and truth, 203. Beneath heaven there are
only nuptial connections which are tied and loosed, 192.
CONSCIENCE is a spiritual virtue which flows from love towards God, and
love towards the neighbor, 164. See _To Flow_.
CONSCIENTIOUSNESS in regard to marriage, 271.
CONSECRATION of marriages, 308.
CONSENT constitutes marriage and initiates the spirit into conjugial
love, 299. Consent against the will, or extorted, does not initiate the
spirit, 299.