BOND.—­The internal or spiritual bond must keep the external or natural in its order and tenor, 320.  Wives love the bonds of marriage if the men do, 217.  Unless the external affections are influenced by internal, which conjoin minds, the bonds of wedlock are loosed in the house, 275.

BOOKS.—­In heaven, as in the world, there are books, 207.

BORN, to be.—­Man is born in total ignorance, 134.  Every man by birth is merely corporeal, and from corporeal he becomes natural more and more interiorly, and thus rational, and at length spiritual, 59, 305, 447.  He becomes rational in proportion as he loves intelligence, and spiritual if he loves wisdom, 94, 102.  Man is not born into any knowledge, and if he does not receive instruction from others, is viler than a beast, 350.  Man is born without sciences, to the end that he may receive them all, and he is born into no love, to the intent that he may come into all love, 134.  Every man is born for heaven and no one for hell, and every one comes into heaven (by influence) from the Lord, and into hell (by influence) from self, 350.

BREAST, the, of man signifies wisdom, 198.  All things which by derivation from the soul and mind have their determination in the body, first flow into the bosom, 179.  The breast is as it were a place of public assembly, and a royal council chamber, and the body is as a populous city around it, 179.  The sphere of the man’s life encompasses him more densely on the breast, but lightly on the back, 171, 224.  See Back.

BRETHREN.—­The Lord calls those brethren and sisters who are of his church, 120.

BRIDE.—­The church in the Word is called the bride and wife, 117.  Clothing of a bride in heaven, 20.

BRIDEGROOM.—­The Lord in the Word is called the bridegroom and husband, 117.  Clothing of a bridegroom in heaven, 20.

BRIMSTONE signifies the love of what is false, 80.  Lakes of fire and brimstone, 79, 80.

CABINET of antiquities in the spiritual world, 77.

CALF, a golden, signifies the pleasure of the flesh, 535.

CAP, a, signifies intelligence, 293.  Turreted cap, 78.

CAROTID ARTERIES, 315.

CASTIGATION.—­The spiritual purification of conjugial love may be compared with the purification of natural spirits effected by chemists, and named castigation, 145.

CATS.—­Comparison concerning them, 512.

CAUSE.—­See End.  To speak from causes is the speech of wisdom, 75. 
Causes of coldness, separations, and divorces in marriages, 234-260. 
Causes of concubinage, 467-474.

CAUSES, the various, of legitimate separation, 253, 470.

CELEBRATION of the Lord from the Word, 81.

CELESTIAL.—­In proportion as a man loves his wife he becomes celestial and internal, 77.