CELIBACY ought not to be preferred to marriage, 156.  Chastity cannot be predicated of those who have renounced marriage by vows of perpetual celibacy, unless there be and remain in them the love of a life truly conjugial, 155.  The sphere of perpetual celibacy infests the sphere of conjugial love, which is the very essential sphere of heaven, 54.  Those who live in celibacy, if they are spiritual, are on the side of heaven, 54.  Those who in the world have lived a single life, and have altogether alienated their minds from marriage, in case they be spiritual, remain single; but if natural, they become whoremongers, 54.  For those who in their single state have desired marriage, and have solicited it without success, if they are spiritual, blessed marriages are provided, but not until the; come into heaven, 54.

CENTRE of nature and of life, 380.

CERBERUS, 79.

CEREBELLUM, the, is beneath the hinder part of the head, and is designed for love and the goods thereof, 444.

CEREBRUM, the, is beneath the anterior and upper part of the head, and is designed for wisdom and the truths thereof, 444.

CHANGE, the, of the state of life which takes place with men and with women by marriage, 184-206.  By changes of the state of life are meant changes of quality as to the things appertaining to the understanding, and as to those appertaining to the will, 184.  The changes which take place in man’s internal principles are more perfectly continuous than those which take place in his external principles, 185.  The changes which take place in internal principles are changes of the state of the will as to affections, and changes of the state of the understanding as to thoughts, 185.  The changes of these two faculties are perpetual with man from infancy even to the end of his life, and afterwards to eternity, 185.  These changes differ in the case of men and in the case of women, 187.

CHARGES of blame are made by a judge according to the law, 485.  Difference between predications, charges of blame, and imputations, 485.

CHARIOT, a, signifies the doctrine of truth, 76.

CHARITY is love, 10.

CHARITY AND FAITH.—­Good has relation to charity, and truth to faith, 115, 124.  To live well is charity, and to believe well is faith, 233.  Charity and faith are the life of God in man, 135.

CHASTE PRINCIPLE, concerning the, and the non-chaste, 138-156.  The chaste principle and the non-chaste are predicated solely of marriages, and of such things as relate to marriages, 139.  The Christian conjugial principle alone is chaste, 142.  See Conjugial.

CHASTITY OF MARRIAGE, 138, and following.  See Contents.  The chastity of marriage exists by a total abdication of what is opposed to it from a principle of religion, 147-149.  The purity of conjugial love is what is called chastity, 139.  Love truly conjugial is essential chastity, 139, 143.  Non-chastity is a removal of what is unchaste from what is chaste, 138.