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.

CONSOCIATION, 45, 153*.

CONSUMMATION of the Age, signifies the last time or end of the church, 80.

CONTEMPT between married partners springs from disunion of souls, 236.

CONTINGENCIES and circumstances vary every thing, 485, 488.

CONTRARIES arise from an opposite principle in contrariety thereto, 425.

CONVICTION of the spirit of man, how it is effected, 295.  Those things in which the spirit is convinced, obtain a place above those which, without consulting reason, enter from authority, and from the faith of authority, 295.

COPPER, the, signifies natural good, 77.  The age or period of copper, 77.

CORPORA STRIATA, 315.

CORPOREAL PRINCIPLE, the, is like ground wherein things natural, rational, and spiritual, are implanted in their order, 59.  Man is born corporeal as a worm, and he remains corporeal, unless he learns to know, to understand, and to be wise from others, 133.  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, 148.  By corporeal men are properly meant those who love only themselves, placing their heart in the quest of honor, 496; they immerse all things of the will, and consequently of the understanding in the body, and look backward at themselves from others, and love only what is proper to themselves, 496.  Corporeal spirits, 495.

CORRESPONDENCES, 76, 127, 342, 532.  Concerning the correspondence of the marriage of the Lord and the church, 116.  There is a correspondence of conjugial love with the marriage of the Lord and the church, 62.  Of the correspondence of the opposite with the violation of spiritual marriage, 515.  See Science of Correspondences.

CORTICAL substance of the brain, 315.

COURAGE is one of the moral virtues which have respect to life and enter into it, 164.

COVENANT signifies conjunction, 128.  As the Word is the medium of conjunction, it is therefore called the old and the new covenant, 128.  The covenant between Jehovah and the heavens, 75.

CRAB, the.—­What it is to think as a crab walks, 295.

CREATE, to.—­Why man was so created that whatever he wills, thinks, and does, appears to him as in himself, and thereby from himself, 444.  How man, created a form of God, could be changed into a form of the devil, 153*.

CREATION cannot be from any other source than from divine love, by divine wisdom in divine use, 183.  All fructifications, propagations, and prolifications, are continuations of creation, 183.  The creation returns to the Creator, through the angelic heaven which is composed of the human race, 85.  Creation of man for conjugial love, 66.