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].