Civic affairs
in the heavens, 213 – 220 , 388 , 393
works and deeds a matter of, 484
Civic truths, 468
Claiming righteousness, stupidity of, 10
Clarity of this book, to people delighting in
spiritual truths, 603
Classical authors, 115
Close of the age, 1
as last time of the church, 1 note a
Clothes. See Garments
Clouds
correspondences with, 105 , 271
the Lord coming in, 1
meaning in the Word, 1 note j
Cognitive ability, 26 note i, 32
taking into the other world, 355
Cognitive life, going back to what is true, 9
Cold, growing in the absence of love, 14
Colloquial comparisons, 97 , 110 – 111
Colors
in heaven, 356 note g
meaning in the Word, 179 note d
Coming of the Lord, meaning the direct rev-
elation taking place today, 1
Communication. See also Infl ow from heaven;
Outreach
of all thought in heaven, 2
between angels and humans, 246 – 257 , 294
of communities with each other, 49 , 601
between the heavens, 27 , 35 , 206 – 210
involving everyone, 268
Communities. See also Angelic communities
angels living apart from, 189
communication among, 49 , 601 , 603
consisting of like-minded people, 383
correspondences with the earthly body, 95
corresponding numbers of in heaven and
hell, 588
differences in light between and within, 128
each a heaven in smaller form, 51 – 58 , 149 , 200
each constituting a unity, 405
each of us in one while on earth, 438
each refl ecting a single individual, 68 – 72 ,
200
growing daily, 71
the heavens made up of countless, 41 – 50 ,
294 , 541 – 542
in hell, 204 , 295 , 541 – 542
individuals within distanced from each
other, 43
intermediate angelic, 27
larger and smaller, 50 , 71
the Lord presenting himself within, 55
spirits put in touch with, 497
spirits taken into, 510 , 519
Compass directions. See The four quarters in
heaven
Compulsion
never from the Lord, 603 : 3
repentance impossible in a state of, 603 : 2
Conception, meaning in the Word, 382 b
note g
Concepts
of angels’ appearance, 74 , 264
of children in heaven, 338
expressed through the consonants in angelic
language, 261
Conscience, 299 note e
Consonants, in language of angels, 261
Contempt, 570
for others, 481 : 5 , 506 : 2 , 554 , 562 , 570
for teachings of the wise, 487
Continuous levels, as vs. noncontinuous (or
distinct), 38
Control
desire for destroying marriage love, 380
spirits seeking a heaven allowing, 6
those placing happiness in being in, 6
Conversation, among angels, 234
Convictions, clash and strife of false, 575
Correspondences
all based on the Lord’s divine human, 101
after death the pleasures of everyone’s life
turned into, 485 – 490
eras of humanity in terms of knowledge
of, 115
of everything in heaven with everything in
the human being, 87 – 102 , 217
of heaven with everything earthly, 103 – 115
of the heavens with one another, 100
importance of knowledge of, 87 note a, 115 ,
487 – 488
misuse of by hellish spirits, 580
Swedenborg experiencing directly, 109
the Word written in pure, 1
Corruption, protecting people of simple heart
and simple faith from, 1index to heaven and hell 375