AE 710c [25, 26]
. . . there are marriages in the heavens even as on earth,
but in the heavens the marriages are of like with like;
for man is born to act from the understanding,
but woman from affection,
and the understanding with men is the understanding of truth and good,
and the affection with women is the affection of truth and good;
and as all understanding derives its life from affection,
therefore the two there are joined together,
as the affection which belongs to the will
is joined with the correspondent thought which belongs to the understanding.
. . . yet, in order that the understanding and affection may act as one,
they are so joined together in heaven that the correspondent affection,
which belongs to the woman,
is conjoined with the correspondent understanding
which belongs to the man;
and as a result, both by correspondence have a life that is full of love.
Now because two different affections
cannot correspond to one understanding,
therefore in heaven one man never has and never can have several wives.
"Therefore they are no more twain but one flesh"
signifies that thus the understanding of good and truth
and the affection of good and truth are not two but one,
in like manner as while will and understanding are two
they are nevertheless one;
and the like is true of truth and good and of faith and charity,
which indeed are two but yet one, that is,
when truth is of good and good is of truth,
so also when faith is of charity and charity is of faith;
and this also is the source of conjugial (marriage) love.
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Sometimes people think that women are just the affection, and men just the understanding, when this is clearly not the case. The one absorbs and works with the other - growing and becoming one in usefulness.
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