AC 2728-2729, 2735 - Conjugial Love - From Good United to Truth

  AC 2728

Conjugial love takes its origin
from the Divine marriage of good and truth,
and thus from the Lord Himself.
That conjugial love is from this,
is not apparent to sense nor to apprehension;
but still it may be seen
from influx and from correspondence,
as well as from the Word.
From influx,
inasmuch as heaven,
from the union of good and truth,
which inflows from the Lord
is compared to a marriage, and is called a marriage:
from correspondence,
since, when good united to truth
flows down into a lower sphere,
it forms a union of minds;
and when into one still lower,
it forms a marriage:
therefore union of minds
from good united to truth from the Lord,
is conjugial love itself.

That genuine conjugial love is from this,
may be seen from the fact
that no one can be in it
unless he is in the good of truth
and the truth of good from the Lord;
also from the fact
that heavenly blessedness and happiness is in that love;
and they who are in it all come into heaven,
or into the heavenly marriage.
Also from the fact
that when angels are conversing
about the union of good and truth,
there is then presented
among good spirits in the lower sphere
a representative of marriage;
but among evil spirits a representative of adultery. 
From this is that in the Word
the union of good and truth is called "marriage;"
but the adulteration of good
and the falsification of truth,
"adultery" and "whoredom".

Genuine conjugial love is the image of heaven,
and when it is represented in the other life
this is done by the most beautiful things
that can ever be seen by the eyes,
or conceived by the mind.
It is represented by a virgin of inexpressible beauty,
encompassed by a bright cloud,
so that it may be said to be beauty itself
in essence and form.
It has been said
that all beauty in the other life is from conjugial love.
Its affections and thoughts are represented
by diamond-like auras,
sparkling as it were with rubies and carbuncles,
and these things are attended with delights
which affect the inmosts of the mind;
but as soon as anything of lasciviousness enters in,
they disappear.