Conjugial Love

← Conjugial Love · Contents 81. As we were conversing and grieving about these things, a burst of light suddenly appeared, powerfully affecting my eyes. Wherefore I looked up, and lo! the whole heaven above us appeared luminous, and from east to west in long succession a glorification was heard. And the angel said to…

← Conjugial Love · Contents 121. (4) That the spiritual offspring, which are born from the marriage of the Lord with the Church are truths, from which come understanding, perception, and all thought; and goods, from which are love, charity, and all affection. That goods and truths are the spiritual offspring born of the Lord…

← Conjugial Love · Contents 161. (5) That conjunction is inspired into the man by the wife, according to her love; and is received by the man according to his wisdom. That love and thence conjunction is inspired into the man by the wife, is at this day concealed from men, yea, is universally denied…

← Conjugial Love · Contents 201. (16) That thus also their forms are successively perfected and ennobled from. the interior. The most perfect and the noblest human form is when two forms become one form by marriage, thus when the flesh of two becomes one flesh according to creation. For then the mind of the…

← Conjugial Love · Contents 241. (6) That the second of the internal causes of cold is, that one has religion and not the other. The reason is that their souls cannot but be discordant, for the soul of one is open for the reception of conjugial love, but the other is closed to the…

← Conjugial Love · Contents 281. (10) That these conjugial simulations, with natural men, savor of prudence for various causes. Between two married partners of whom one is spiritual and the other natural (by spiritual is meant, who loves spiritual things and thus is wise from the Lord, and by natural is meant, who only…

← Conjugial Love · Contents 321. (4) That those who have lived together in love truly conjugial do not wish to marry again, unless for reasons apart from conjugial love. Why those who have lived in love truly conjugial do not desire to marry again after the death of their married partner, is for these…

← Conjugial Love · Contents 361. The very reason shall be unfolded why man is set on fire by an attack upon his love. The human form, from creation, is in its inmosts a form of love and wisdom. In man all affections of love and thence all perceptions of wisdom are arranged in most…

← Conjugial Love · Contents 0. THE DELIGHTS OF WISDOM PERTAINING TO CONJUGIAL LOVE AFTER WHICH FOLLOW THE PLEASURES OF INSANITY PERTAINING TO SCORTATORY LOVE CONTENTS. [NOTE.-The tables of contents in this volume are the author’s own indexes.] RESPECTING THE JOYS OF HEAVEN AND NUPTIALS THERE (n. 1-26). MARRIAGES IN HEAVEN (n. 27-41). (1) That…

← Conjugial Love · Contents 1. THE DELIGHTS OF WISDOM PERTAINING TO CONJUGIAL LOVE. PRELIMINARIES. THE JOYS OF HEAVEN AND NUPTIALS THERE. I foresee that many who read the following Relations and those after the chapters will believe they are fictions of the imagination; but I declare in truth that they are not fictions, but…