Tuesday, April 05, 2011

AE 817c - marriage and adultery

AE 817c [4,5]
. . . all heresies, so far as they are adulterations and falsifications of the Word,
correspond to adulteries and whoredoms of various kinds. . ..
The reason of this is
that marriages as they exist in the heavens
derive their spiritual origin from the conjunction of good and truth;
and conversely,
adulteries derive their origin from the conjunction of evil and falsity;
and this is why heaven is compared in the Word to a marriage,
and hell to adultery.

For every kind of faith must necessarily conjoin itself with some love;
therefore when spiritual love, which is charity, is separated,
faith then conjoins itself with the love of self or with the love of the world,
which are the loves that are dominant in the natural person;
and this is why so heinous an adultery results
from faith separated from charity.

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