378. Nor can there be conjugial love between two partners belonging to different religions, because the truth of the one does not agree with the good of the other; and two unlike and discordant kinds of good and truth cannot make one mind out of two; and in consequence the love of such does not have its origin in anything spiritual. If they live together and agree it is solely on natural grounds.# And this is why in the heavens marriages are found only with those who are in the same society, because such are in like good and truth, and not with those outside the society. It may be seen above (n. 4!, seq.) that all there in a society are in like good and truth, and differ from those outside the society. This was also represented in the Israelitish nation by marriages being contracted within tribes, and partictilarly within families, and not outside them. # Marriages between those of different religions are not permissible, because there can be no conjunction of like good and truth in the interiors (n. 8998).