CREATE, to.—Why man was so created that whatever he wills, thinks, and does, appears to him as in himself, and thereby from himself, [444]. How man, created a form of God, could be changed into a form of the devil, [153*].
CREATION cannot be from any other source than from divine love, by divine wisdom in divine use, [183]. All fructifications, propagations, and prolifications, are continuations of creation, [183]. The creation returns to the Creator, through the angelic heaven which is composed of the human race, [85]. Creation of man for conjugial love, [66].
CROCODILES, in the spiritual world, represent the deceit and cunning of the inhabitants, [79].
CROWNS of flowers on the head, [183]. The crown of chastity, [503].
CUPIDITIES, the, of the flesh are nothing but the conglomerated concupiscences of what is evil and false, [440].
CUSTOMARY RITES, there are, which are merely formal, and there are others which at the same time are also essential; among the latter are the nuptials, [306]. Nuptials are to be reckoned among essentials, [306].
DARKNESS of the north signifies dulness of mind and ignorance of truth, [77].
DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW.—What daughters and sons-in-law signify in the Word, [120].
DAUGHTERS, in the Word, signifies the goods of the church, [120], [220].