AC 9959 - Truths Protect; AC 9961 - True Conjugial Love Is the Marriage of Good & Truth

AC 9959 [2]

. . . truths are what protect goods
from evils and falsities, and resist them;
and all the power which good has
is by means of truths.

AC 9961 [3-4, 6] - True Conjugial Love Is
the Marriage of Good & Truth

As regards conjugial love specifically,
whose range is the subject here,
this love is the fundamental of all loves;
for it descends from
the marriage of good and truth in the heavens;
and as the marriage of good and truth
is in the heavens,
and makes the heavens,
therefore love truly conjugial
is heaven itself with a person.
But the marriage of good and truth in the heavens
descends from
the conjunction of the Lord with the heavens;
for that which proceeds from the Lord
and flows into the heavens is the good of love;
and that which is received there by the angels
is the truth springing from it,
thus is the truth which is from good,
or in which is good.
For this reason the Lord is called in the Word
the "Bridegroom" and "Husband;"
and heaven with the church
is called the "bride" and "wife."

From all this it can be seen
how holy marriages are in heaven,
and how profane adulteries are there.
For in themselves marriages are so holy
that there is nothing more holy,
and this also for the reason
that they are the seminaries of the human race,
and the human race is the seminary of the heavens,
for all the people go there
who in the world have lived an angelic life.
And on the other hand
adulteries are so profane
that there is nothing more profane,
because they are destructive
of heaven and the church with a person.

, , , by conjugial love is meant
all celestial and spiritual love,
for the reason, as shown above,
that love truly conjugial is the fundamental of all loves.
Therefore those who are in this love
are also in all other loves of heaven and of the church,
for as before said,
it descends from
the marriage of good and truth in the heavens,
which marriage makes heaven.
From this also it is
that in the Word heaven is compared to a "marriage,"
and is likewise called a "marriage."
From this also it is evident
why a warning was given
that the nakednesses of Aaron and of his sons
should not appear while they were ministering;
for their "nakednesses" signified
all loves contrary to heavenly loves,
which in general,
when they are ends,
are called the loves of self and of the world,
and are filthy and infernal loves.
That this is so
the person of the present day is not aware,
for the reason that he is in these loves,
and perceives no other delight
than that which is from them.
Consequently when spiritual love and celestial love
are mentioned, he is perplexed,
and does not know what they are,
consequently what heaven is;
and perhaps he will be amazed
when he hears and thinks
that in spiritual and celestial love,
separate from the love of self and of the world,
there is eternal happiness which is unutterable.