He wondered that the man of the church should know nothing
about this, seeing that the church is the Lord's heaven on the earth,
and heaven is a marriage of good and truth. He said he was astounded
to think that within the church, even more than outside of it,
adulteries are committed and even justified; the delight of which in
itself is nothing else in a spiritual sense, and consequently in the
spiritual world, than the delight of the love of falsity conjoined to
evil, which delight is infernal delight, because it is the direct
opposite of the delight of heaven, which is the delight of the love
of truth conjoined with good.
375. Everyone knows that a married pair who love each other are
interiorly united, and that the essential of marriage is the union of
dispositions and minds. And from this it can be seen that such as
their essential dispositions or minds are, such is their union and
such their love for each other. The mind is formed solely out of
truths and goods, for all things in the universe have relation to
good and truth and to their conjunction; consequently such as the
truths and goods are out of which the minds are formed, exactly such
is the union of minds; and consequently the most perfect union is the
union of minds that are formed out of genuine truths and goods.
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