Conjugial Love (Rogers) n. 362

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362. (3) A person's zeal is as his love is, thus of one character when the person's love is good, and of another character when the person's love is evil. Since zeal is an expression of love, it follows that it is as the love is. Moreover, because loves in general are of two kinds, a love of goodness and so of truth, and a love of evil and so of falsity, consequently in general there is a zeal for goodness and so for truth, and a zeal for evil and so for falsity. It should be known, however, that each of these two kinds of love is of infinite variety. This is clearly apparent from angels in heaven and spirits in hell. Both the one and the other in the spiritual world are forms of their love, and yet not one angel in heaven is entirely like another - in facial features, speech, manner of walk, gestures or habits - and neither is any spirit in hell. Indeed, neither can there be to eternity, no matter how many millions of times they are multiplied. It is apparent from this that loves are of infinite variety, because their forms are. It is the same with zeal, because it is an expression of love; namely, that the zeal of one cannot be entirely like or the same as the zeal of another. In general there is the zeal of a good love, and the zeal of an evil love.


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