CHEMISTRY is one of the sciences by which, as by doors, an entrance is made into things rational, which are the ground of rational wisdom, 163.

CHEMISTS.—­Spiritual purification compared to the natural purification of spirits effected by chemists, 145.

CHILDREN born of parents who are principled in love truly conjugial, derive from their parents the conjugial principle of good and truth, 202-205.  Infants in heaven become men of stature and comeliness, according to the increments of intelligence with them; it is otherwise with infants on earth, 187.  When they have attained the stature of young men of eighteen, and young girls of fifteen years of age, in this world, then marriages are provided by the Lord for them, 444.  The love of infants remains after death, especially with women, 410.  Infants are educated under the Lord’s auspices by such women, 411.  Little children in the Word signify those who are in innocence, 414.  The love of infants corresponds to the defence of good and truth, 127.

CHRIST.—­The kingdom of Christ, which is heaven, is a kingdom of uses, 7.  To reign with Christ signifies to be wise, and to perform uses, 7.

CHRISTIAN.—­Love truly conjugial with its delights can only exist among those who are of the Christian church, 337.  Not a single person throughout the Christian world is acquainted with the true nature of heavenly joy and eternal happiness, 4.

CHRYSALISES, 418.

CHURCH, the, is from the Lord, and exists with those who come to Him, and live according to His precepts, 129.  The church is the Lord’s kingdom in the world, corresponding to his kingdom in the heavens; and also the Lord conjoins them together, that they may make a one, 431.  The church in general and in particular is a marriage of good and of truth, 115.  The church with man is formed by the Lord by means of truths to which good is adjoined, 122-124.  The church with its goods and truths can never exist but with those who live in love truly conjugial with one wife, 76.  The church is of both sexes, 21.  The husband and wife together are the church; with these the church first implanted in the man and by the man in the wife, 125.  How the church is formed by the Lord with two married partners, and how conjugial love is formed thereby, 68.  The origin of the church and of conjugial love are in one place of abode, 238.

CIRCE, 521.

CIRCLE.—­What circles round the head represent in the spiritual life, 269.  Circle and increasing progression of conjugial love, 78.

CIRCUMSTANCES and contingencies vary every thing, 485.  The quality of every deed, and in general the quality of every thing, depends upon circumstances, 487.

CIVIL things have relation to the world, they are statutes, laws, and rules, which bind men, so that a civil society and state may be composed of them in a well-connected order, 130.  Civil things with man reside beneath spiritual things, and above natural things, 130.