CONFIRM, to.—The understanding alone confirms, and when it confirms it engages the will to its party, [491]. Every one can confirm evil equally as well as good, in like manner what is false as well as what is true. The reason why the confirmation of evil is perceived with more delight than the confirmation of good, and the confirmation of what is false with greater lucidity than the confirmation of what is true, [491]. Intelligence does not consist in being able to confirm whatever a man pleases, but in being able to see that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, [233]. Every one may confirm himself in favor of the divine principle or Being, by the visible things of nature, [416-419]. Those who confirm themselves in favor of a divine principle or Being, attend to the wonderful things which are conspicuous in the productions both of vegetables and animals, [416]. Those who had confirmed themselves in favor of nature, by what is visible in this world, so as to become atheists, appeared in spiritual light with the understanding open beneath, but closed above, [421].
CONFIRMATIONS are effected by reasonings, which the mind seizes for its use, deriving them either from its superior region or its inferior, [491]. The form of the human mind is according to confirmations turned towards heaven, if its confirmations are in favor of marriages, but turned to hell, if they are in favor of adulteries, [491]. Confirmations of falsities, so as to make them appear like truths, are represented in the spiritual world under the forms of birds of night, [233]. See [To Confirm].
CONFIRMATORS.—They are called such in the spiritual world who cannot at all see whether truth be truth, but yet can make whatever they will to be truth, [233]. Their fate in the other life, [233].
CONJUGIAL PAIRS.—It is provided by the Lord that conjugial pairs be born, and that these pairs be continually educated for marriage, neither the maiden nor the youth knowing any thing of the matter, [316].
CONJUGIAL PRINCIPLE, the, of good and truth is implanted from creation in every soul, and also in the principles derived from the soul, [204]. The conjugial principle fills the universe from first principles to last, and from a man even to a worm, [204]. It is inscribed on the soul, to the end that soul may be propagated from soul, [236]. It is inscribed on both sexes from inmost principles to ultimates, and a man's quality as to his thoughts and affections, and consequently as to his bodily actions and behavior, is according to that principle, [140]. In every substance, even the smallest, there is a conjugial principle, [316]. In the minutest things with man, both male and female, there is a conjugial principle: still the conjugial principle with the male is different from what it is with the female, [316]. There is implanted in every man from creation, and consequently from his birth, an internal conjugial principle, and an external conjugial principle; man comes first into the latter, and as he becomes spiritual he comes into the former. [148], [188]. Children derive from their parents the conjugial principle of good and truth, for it is that principle which flows into man from the Lord, and constitutes his human life, [203]. The conjugial human principle ever goes hand in hand with religion, [80]. This conjugial principle is the desire of living with one wife, and every Christian has this desire according to his religion, [80]. The Christian conjugial principle alone is chaste, [142]. By the Christian conjugial principle is meant the marriage of one man with one wife, [142]. The conjugial principle of one man with one wife, is the storehouse of human life, and the reservoir of the Christian religion, [457], [458]. The conjugial principle is like a scale in which conjugial love is weighed, [531].
CONJUNCTION.—In every part, and even in every particular, there is a principle tending to conjunction, [33], [37]; it was implanted from creation, and thence remains perpetually, [37]. The conjunctive principle lies concealed in every part of the male, and in every part of the female, [37], [46]. In the male conjugial principle there is what is conjunctive with the female conjugial principle, and vice versa, even in the minutest things, [316].
CONJUNCTION of souls and minds by marriage, so that they are no longer two but one flesh, [156], [181]. Spiritual conjunction cannot possibly be dissolved, [321]. How there is a conjunction of the created universe with its Creator, and by conjunction everlasting conservation, [85]. There is conjunction with the Lord by a life according to his commandments, [341]. There is no conjunction unless it be reciprocal, for conjunction on one part, and not on the other in its turn, is dissolved of itself, [61].
CONNECTION, the connubial, of what is evil and false is the spiritual origin of adultery, [428], [520]. It is the anti-church, [497]. In hell all are in this conmibium, [520].