It is a heavenly secret that marriage love can, in appearance, so deeply enter into heaven that it reaches the innermost region with the feeling of happiness. This is according to the appearance. The reason why there is actually communication [of that love with heaven] is that the Lord's life streams in through the innermost heaven, then through one after the other following heavens into the marriage love of those who are kept in it by the Lord, with whom it cannot appear otherwise than as if it enters heaven from them. 1748, 20 Sept.