Conjugial Love (Rogers) n. 280

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280. (9) In a spiritual person joined to a natural one, these simulations of conjugial love are a matter of justice and judgment. That is because a spiritual person does what he does in accordance with justice and judgment. Therefore he does not see these simulations as estranged from his inward affections but as coupled together with them. For he is serious in his actions and looks to amendment as the goal; and if this is not attained, he looks to accommodation, for the sake of order in the home, for the sake of maintaining their assistance to each other, for the sake of providing for the care of infants, for the sake of peace and tranquillity. He is led to these intentions by a sense of justice, and with judgment he carries them into practice. This is the way a spiritual person lives with a natural one, because a spiritual person behaves spiritually, even with one who is natural.


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