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 CLIMATE. Changes of state, like variations of c. H, and H. 157,

CLOAK 3, exterior truth. A E. 566.

CLOAKS 8, truths in common. A. R. 328.

Clothe, to, s, to instruct in truths. 4. E. 240.

CLOBED. The internal of perception is c, when there is no intermediate (principle] through which influx may pass. A. C. 4692. So long as man keeps his external c, the Lord cannot purify him from any concupiscence of evil in his spirit or internal man. D. P. 120. The Word is said to be c, when it is understood only as to the sense of the letter, and when all that is assumed for doctrine, which is contained in the letter, and it is still more c, when doctrinals are formed therefrom which favor self-love and the love of the world. A. C. 3769.

CLOSETB (Luke xii. 3) s, the interiors of mad; viz., that which he thinks, intends, etc. A. C. 5194. The ancients compared the mind of map to a bouse, and those things which are within in man to c. The things contained in the mind arc distinct, nearly resembling the distinction of a house into its c. (or chambers). Those things which are in the midst are the inmost there, those which are at the sides are more external; these latter were compared to courts, and the things without which cohered with the things within were compared to porticos. A. C. 7353.

CLOSURE 8, conjunction with truth from the divine. 9534.

CLOTIIED. Celestial good is that which is not c., because it is inmost, and is innocent; but celestial spiritual good is that which is first C., and also natural good, they being of an exterior naturc, on which account they are compared to garments in the Word. A. C. 297.

CLOTHING den, the support of exterior lifu by interior scientifics. 9003. S, every thing external which clothes the soul. A. Cr. 83.

s. an obscure light in which the spiritual man is, with respect to the celestial. A. C. 1043. In some parts of the Word it s. divine truth in the superior heavens, because they appear before the eyes of them who are in the inferior heavens as covered round with a thin white c. Ap. Ex. 594, The divine presence. (1 Kings viii 11.) A. C. 10.574. A light c. (Isa. xix. 1, 17) s. divine truth natural spiritual from which the quality of man as to his natural principle is derived. Ap. Ex. 654. C. in an opp. sense, s. the Word, with respect to its literal sense falsified. A. R. 24. C. s. the written Word in its literal sense. A. C. 4060, 10.574. It is said of Jehovah, that "the c. are the dust of his feet" (Nahum i. 3), because those things which are in the literal sense of the Word, which is natural, appear scattered. Ap. Ex. 69. White c. s. the Word in the literal sense translucent by virtue of its spiritual sense. A. R. 642. "To cover the heavens with c.," s. to preserve and defend the spiritual things of the Word which are in the heavens by the natural truths which are in the literal sense of the Word. Ap. Ex. 594. The discourses of angels are sometimes rep. by C., and by their forms, motions, and translations; affirmatives of truths, by bright and ascending c., negatives, by dark and descending c.; affirmatives of what is false, by dusky and black c.; consent and dissent, by various consociations and dissociations of c., and these in a sky color, like that of the heavens in the night. A. C. 3221. See ''Bow in a Cloud. Pillar of a Cloud, Literal Sense.''

CLUSTER, to eat the (Micub vii. 1, 2), den, the good of charity in its beginning, or what is holy and the primitive [c.) or first ripe den, the