COMMUNICATIONS.—After death, married pairs enjoy similar communications with each other as in the world, [51].
CONATUS is the very essence of motion, [215]. From the endeavor of the two principles of good and truth to join themselves together into one, conjugial love exists by derivation, [288].
CONCEPTIONS.—Between the disjoined souls of married partners there is effected conjunction in a middle love, otherwise there would be no conceptions, [245].
CONCERTS of music and singing in the heavens, [17].
CONCLUDE, to, from an interior and prior principle, is to conclude from ends and causes to effects, which is according to order; but to conclude from an exterior or posterior principle, is to conclude from effects to causes and ends, which is contrary to order, [408].
CONCUBINAGE, [462-476]. Difference between concubinage and pellicacy, [462]. See [Pellicacy]. There are two kinds of concubinage which differ exceedingly from each other, the one conjointly with a wife, the other apart from a wife, [463]. Concubinage conjointly with a wife is illicit to Christians and detestable, [464]. See also [467], [476].
CONCUBINE, [462].
CONCUPISCENCE, concerning, [267]. Every one is by truth interiorly in concupiscence, but by education exteriorly in intelligence, [267]. Interesting particulars concerning concupiscence not visionary or fantastic, in which all men are born, [269]. All the concupiscences of evil reside in the lowest region of the mind, which is called the natural; but in the region above, which is called the spiritual, there are not any concupiscences of evil, [305]. In every thing that proceeds from the natural man there is concupiscence, [448]. Imputation of concupiscence, [455]. In the spiritual world every evil concupiscence presents a likeness of itself in some form, which is not perceived by those who are in the concupiscence, but by those who are at a distance, [521].
CONFIDENCE, full, is in conjugial love, and is derived from it, [180]. Full confidence relates to the heart, [180].
CONFINES OF HEAVEN.—Those who enter into extra-conjugial life are sent to their like, on the confines of heaven, [155].