AC 3952 - The Heavenly Marriage

  AC 3952 [1-2]

. . . the heavenly marriage is
that of good with truth and of truth with good,
yet is not between good and truth
of one and the same degree,
but between good and truth
of a lower and of a higher degree,
that is, not between the good of the external person
and the truth of the same,
but between the good of the external person
and the truth of the internal;
or what is the same,
not between the good of the natural person
and its truth,
but between the good of the natural person
and the truth of the spiritual person.
This conjunction is that which makes the marriage.

It is the same in the internal or spiritual person;
the heavenly marriage there
is not between the good and the truth in that person;
but between the good of the spiritual person
and the truth of the celestial person;
for the celestial person is relatively in a higher degree.
Nor is there a heavenly marriage between
the good and the truth in the celestial person;
but between the good of the celestial person
and the truth Divine which proceeds from the Lord.
From this it is also evident
that the Divine marriage itself of the Lord
is not between the good Divine
and the truth Divine in His Divine Human,
but between the good of the Divine Human
and the Divine Itself, that is,
between the Son and the Father;
for the good of the Lord's Divine Human
is that which is called in the Word the "Son of God,"
and the Divine Itself is called the "Father."