The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love / To Which is Added The Pleasures of Insanity Pertaining To Scortatory Love

by Emanuel Swedenborg

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].