AC 4145 [3]
Take also as an example conjugial love:
the good which precedes and initiates is beauty, or agreement of manners,
or an outward adaptation of the one to the other,
or equality of condition, or a desired condition.
These goods are the first mediate goods of conjugial love.
Afterwards comes conjunction of minds, wherein the one wills as the other,
and perceives delight in doing that which pleases the other.
This is the second state;
and then the former things, though still present, are no longer regarded.
Finally there follows a union in respect to celestial good and spiritual truth,
in that the one believes as the other,
and the one is affected by the same good as the other.
When this state comes,
both are together in the heavenly marriage,
which is that of good and truth, and thus are in conjugial love
- for conjugial love is nothing else -
and the Lord then flows into the affections of both as into one affection.
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