When these two parts act as one they are called one mind. In heaven
the husband acts the part called the understanding and the wife acts
the part called the will. When this conjunction, which belongs to
man's interiors, descends into the lower parts pertaining to the
body, it is perceived and felt as love, and this love is marriage
love. This shows that marriage love has its origin in the conjunction
of two into one mind. This in heaven is called cohabitation; and the
two are not called two but one. So in heaven a married pair is spoken
of, not as two, but as one angel.{1}
{Footnote 1} It is not known at this day what marriage love is,
or whence it is (n. 2727). Marriage love is willing what
another wills, thus willing mutually and reciprocally (n.
2731). Those that are in marriage love dwell together in the
inmosts of life (n. 2732). It is such a union of two minds that
from love they are one (n. 10168, 10169). For the love of
minds, which is spiritual love, is a union (n. 1594, 2057,
3939, 4018, 5807, 6195, 7081-7086, 7501, 10130).
368. Moreover, such a conjunction of husband and wife in the inmosts
of their minds comes from their very creation; for man is born to be
intellectual, that is, to think from the understanding, while woman
is born to be affectional, that is, to think from her will; and this
is evident from the inclination or natural disposition of each, also
from their form; from the disposition, in that man acts from reason
and woman from affection; from the form in that man has a rougher and
less beautiful face, a deeper voice and a harder body; while woman
has a smoother and more beautiful face, a softer voice, and a more
tender body.
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