Concerning Conscience. Those who have no conscience, do not know what conscience is, nos. 7490, 9121. There are some who laugh at conscience, when they hear what it is, no, 7217. Some believe that conscience is nothing; some that it is a natural feeling of pain causing sadness, which arises either from causes in the body, or in the world; and some that it is something with people generally which arises from their religion, no. 950. Some do not know that they have a conscience, when yet they have one, no. 2380. The good have conscience, but not the evil, nos. 831, 965, 7490. Those have conscience who are in love to God and in love towards the neighbour, no. 2380. Those chiefly have conscience, who have been regenerated by the Lord, no. 977. Those who are in truths alone, and not in a life according to them, have no conscience, nos. 1076, 1077, 1919. Those who do good from natural good, and not from religion, have no conscience, no. 6208. Conscience with a man is from the doctrine of his Church, or from his particular religion, and it is according thereto, no. 9112. Conscience with a man is formed from those things which belong to his religion, and which he believes to be true, nos. 1077, 2053, 9113. Conscience is an internal bond, by which a man is induced to think, speak, and do good; and by which he is withheld from thinking, speaking, and doing evil; and indeed not for the sake of himself and the world, but for the sake of what is good, true, just, and upright, nos. 1919, 9120. Conscience is an internal dictate, that a man ought to act so, or not so, nos. 1919, 1935. Conscience, in its essence, is a consciousness of what is true and right, nos. 986, 8081. The new will with a spiritual regenerate man is conscience, nos. 927, 1023, 1043, 1044, 4299, 4328, 4493, 9115, 9596. Spiritual life with a man is from conscience, no. 9117. There is true conscience, spurious conscience, and false conscience, concerning which see no. 1033. The more that conscience has been formed from genuine truths, the more it is true, nos. 2053, 2063, 9114. In general, conscience is twofold, interior and exterior; interior conscience is that of spiritual good, which in its essence is truth, and exterior conscience is that of moral and civil good, which in its essence is what is sincere and just, and in general what is right, nos. 5145, 10296. The pang of conscience is an anxiety of the mind on account of any injustice, insincerity, and evil which a man believes to be against God, and against the good of the neighbour, no. 7217. If there is a feeling of anxiety when a man thinks evil, it arises from conscience, no. 5470. The pang of conscience consists in an anguish felt on account of any evil which a man does, and also on account of the privation of good and truth, no. 7217. Inasmuch as temptation is a combat of truth and falsity in a man's interiors, and as in temptations there is a feeling of pain and anxiety, therefore none other are admitted into spiritual temptations, except those who have conscience, no. 847. Those who have conscience speak and act from the heart, nos. 7935, 9114. Those who have conscience do not swear in vain, no. 2842. Those who have conscience are in a state of interior blessedness when they do what is good and just according to conscience, no. 9118. Those who have conscience in this world, have conscience also in the other life, and are there among the happy, no. 965. The influx of heaven takes place with a man into conscience, nos. 6207, 6213, 9122. The Lord rules the spiritual man through conscience, which with him is an internal bond, nos. 1835, 1862. Those who have conscience have interior thought, but those who have no conscience, have only exterior thought, nos. 1919, 1935. Those who have conscience, think from the Spiritual, while those who have no conscience, think only from the Natural, no. 1820. Those who have no conscience, are only external men, no. 4459. The Lord rules those who have no conscience through external bonds, such as are all those things which belong to the love of self and of the world, and as consequently relate to the fear of the loss of reputation, honour, office, gain, or wealth, and to the fear of the law, and of the loss of life, nos. 1077, 1080, 1835. Those who have no conscience, and still suffer themselves to be ruled by those external bonds, are able to discharge in the world the duties of high offices, and to do good, just as well as those who have conscience; but the former do so in an external form from external bonds, but the latter in an internal form from internal bonds, no. 6207. Those who have no conscience are desirous of destroying conscience with those who have it, no. 1820. Those who have no conscience in this world, have no conscience in the other life, nos. 965, 9122. Wherefore, those who are in hell do not feel any pang of conscience on account of the evils they have done in the world, nos. 965, 9122. Who, and of what quality, and how troublesome, the morbidly conscientious are, and to what things they correspond in the spiritual world, nos. 5386, 5724. Those who are from the Lord's spiritual kingdom, have a conscience, which has been formed in their intellectual part, nos. 863, 865, 875, 895, 927, 1043, 1044, 1555, 2256, 4328, 4493, 5113, 6367, 8521, 9115, 9915, 9995, 10124. It is otherwise with those who are in the Lord's celestial kingdom, nos. 927, 2256, 5113, 6367, 8521, 9915, 9995, 10124.