Conjugial Love (Chadwick) n. 144

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144. (v) All the delights of truly conjugial love, even the lowest, are chaste.

This follows from the explanations given above, that truly conjugial love is the height of chastity, and delights constitute its life. The delights of that love rise up and enter heaven, passing on the way through the pleasures of the heavenly loves enjoyed by angels in heaven, and they combine with the delights of their conjugial love, as was related above. I have in addition heard from angels that they feel their delights uplifted and filled out, when they rise up from chaste married couples on earth. And for the sake of the by-standers, who were unchaste, they assented to the question whether this included the lowest delights, whispering, 'Of course; are not these then at their fullest?' On the source and nature of the delights of this love see above 69, and in the accounts of experiences, especially the next.


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