CL 127, 130 - the correspondence & wisdom of married love

CL 127

. . . married love corresponds to

an affection for genuine truth

and its chasteness, purity and holiness;

that insemination corresponds to

the power of truth;

that procreation corresponds to

the propagation of truth;

and that love for little children corresponds to

the protection of truth and good.

CL 130

People are capable of

knowledge, intelligence and wisdom.

Knowledge has to do with concepts,

intelligence with reason,

and wisdom with life.

[4] . . . the question arises,

what wisdom of life is.

In brief summary, it is this:

to refrain from evils

because they are harmful to the soul,

harmful to the civil state,

and harmful to the body,

and to do good things

because they are of benefit to the soul,

to the civil state,

and to the body.

This is the wisdom that is meant by

the wisdom to which married love attaches itself.