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].
CIVILITY is one of the moral virtues which have respect to life, and enter into it, [164]. In heaven they show each other every token of civility, [16].
CLAY mixed with iron, [79].
COHABIT, to.—When married partners have lived in love truly conjugial, the spirit of the deceased cohabits continually with that of the survivor, and this even to the death of the latter, [321].
COHABITATION, spiritual, takes place with married partners who love each other tenderly, however remote their bodies may be from each other, [158]. See [Adjunction]. Internal and external cohabitation, [322]. With those who are principled in love truly conjugial the happiness of cohabitation increases, but it decreases with those who are not principled in conjugial love, [213].
COHOBATION.—The spiritual purification of conjugial love may be compared to the purification of natural spirits, as effected by chemists, and called cohobation, [145].
COLD.—Spirits merely natural grow intensely cold while they apply themselves to the side of some angel, who is in a state of love, [235]. Spiritual cold in marriages is a disunion of souls, [236]. Causes of cold in marriages, [237-250]. Cold arises from various causes, internal, external, and accidental, all of which originate in a dissimilitude of internal inclinations, [275]. Spiritual cold is the privation of spiritual heat, [285]. Whence it arises, [235]. Whence conjugial cold arises, [294]. Every one who is insane in spiritual things is cold towards his wife, and warm towards harlots, [294].
COLUMN.—Comparison of successive and simultaneous order to a column of steps, which, when it subsides, becomes a body ushering in a plane, [314].