Let
it be known that no two things mutually love each other more than
truth and good do; and therefore it is from that love that true
marriage love descends.{1} Falsity and evil also love each other, but
this love is afterwards changed into hell.
{Footnote 1} All things in the universe, both in heaven and in
the world, have relation to good and truth (n. 2452, 3166,
4390, 4409, 5232, 7256, 10122). And to the conjunction of these
(n. 10555). Between good and truth there is marriage (n. 1904,
2173, 2508). Good loves truth, and from love longs for truth
and for the conjunction of truth with itself, and from this
they are in a perpetual endeavor to be conjoined (n. 9206,
9207, 9495). The life of truth is from good (n. 1589, 1997,
2572, 4070, 4096, 4097, 4736, 4757, 4884, 5147, 9667). Truth is
the form of good (n. 3049, 3180, 4574, 9154). Truth is to good
as water is to bread (n. 4976).
376. From what has now been said about the origin of marriage love
one may conclude who are in that love and who are not; namely, that
those are in marriage love who are in Divine good from Divine truths;
and that marriage love is genuine just to the extent that the truths
are genuine with which the good is conjoined.
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