AC 4434 - Correspondences Through Love Truly Conjugial

AC 4434 [9]

Since through love truly conjugial
marriages on earth correspond to the heavenly marriage,
which is that of good and truth,
therefore the laws delivered in the Word
concerning betrothals and marriages
wholly correspond to the spiritual laws
of the heavenly marriage,
as that they were to espouse only one wife
(Mark 10:2-8; Luke 16:18);
for such is the case in the heavenly marriage,
namely, that good cannot be conjoined
except with its own truth,
and truth with its own good.
If good were conjoined with any other truth than its own,
it would not subsist at all,
but would be rent asunder and so would perish.
In the spiritual church
the wife represents good and the man represents truth,
but in the celestial church
the husband represents good and the wife truth;
and ---what is a mystery --
they not only represent those things
but also in actual fact correspond to them.