AC 2173 - a marriage

AC 2173
In the historicals of the Word
good and truth cannot be represented otherwise than by a marriage,
for this is really the case with them,
for there is a Divine marriage between things celestial and spiritual,
or what is the same,
between those which are of love and those which are of faith,
or again what is the same,
between those of the will and those of the understanding.
The former are of good,
the latter are of truth.
There is such a marriage in the Lord's kingdom in the heavens;
such also in the Lord's kingdom on the earth (that is, in the church);
such a marriage in every person,
in every single thing of him,
even in the veriest singulars of all.
That which is not in such a marriage does not live.