Conjugial Love (Rogers) n. 92

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92. (5) From the marriage of good and truth flowing in from the Lord comes love for the opposite sex and also conjugial love. We showed above (nos. 84-87) that goodness and truth are universal in creation, and are therefore in all created vessels; that they are present in these vessels according to each one's form; and that good and truth emanate from the Lord not as two entities but as a unity. It follows from this that there is a universal conjugial atmosphere emanating from the Lord and pervading the universe from the firsts to the lasts of it, thus from angels all the way down to worms. Such an atmosphere of a marriage of good and truth emanates from the Lord because it is at the same time an atmosphere of propagation, that is, of procreation and fructification. It is also the same thing as the Divine providence in the preservation of the universe by successive generations. Now because that universal atmosphere, which is an atmosphere of a marriage of good and truth, flows into its vessels according to each one's form (no. 86), it follows that the male sex receives it according to its form, thus in the intellect, because the male is an intellect-oriented form, and that the female sex receives it according to its form, thus in the will, because the female is a will-oriented form derived from the intellect-oriented form of the male. And because the same atmosphere is also an atmosphere of procreation, it follows that it is the origin of love between the sexes.


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