CL 432 - Married Love Makes a Person More Human; CL 443 - Contrasting Houses

CL 432

(1) That a person who is in a state of truly conjugial love
becomes more and more spiritual,
and the more spiritual anyone is,
the more human he is.

(2) That he becomes more and more wise,
and the wiser anyone is,
the more human he is.

(3) That in him the interior faculties of the mind
are opened more and more, to the point
that he sees or intuitively acknowledges the Lord,
and the more anyone possesses
that sight or acknowledgment,
the more human he is.

(4) That he becomes
more and more moral and law-abiding,
because his morality and citizenship
contain a spiritual soul,
and the more morally law-abiding anyone is,
the more human he is.

(5) That after death he also becomes an angel of heaven,
and an angel in essence and form is human;
and moreover a genuine humanity radiates
from his face, speech and habits;
from which it follows as well that conjugial love
makes a person more and more human.

CL 443

The nature of the delights
of licentious love and of those of conjugial love
can be made clearer by comparing them to houses.
The delights of licentious love
may be compared to a house whose walls on the outside
glow with a reddish hue like shellfish,
or with a false hue of gold
like specular stones called selenites,
while the rooms inside within the walls
contain piles of dirt and trash of every kind.
In contrast, the delights of conjugial love
may be likened to a house whose walls glisten
as though of pure gold,
and whose rooms within are sparkling,
as though filled with treasure-troves
of many precious things.