There are three degrees [of life], and the three degrees of life are in every man (149-153).

There are three degrees of love and wisdom (154-158).

There are three degrees of substances and forms (154-158).

These three degrees can be opened with man; and they are opened as man receives truths in the understanding and does them in will (159-162).

Differences between those with whom the natural degree has been opened, and those with whom the spiritual degree, and the celestial degree, has been opened (202-207).

The marriage of good and truth descends from the Lord through three degrees, and in each degree it goes on from greatest to least; hence there is infinite variety in that marriage (373-375). Marriages of the highest degree, which are called celestial, are infinitely more perfect than marriages of the lower degree which are called spiritual, and these are infinitely more perfect than marriages of the lowest degree which are called natural (376-378).

Marriages of the lowest degree are perfect in the measure of the reception of the influx of the conjugial sphere from the two higher degrees (379-381).

These marriages without the reception of influx from the two prior, do not draw their origin from the marriages of good and truth, but from the connubial relations of evil and falsity, which are adulteries (382-385).

Adulteries also are of three degrees (386-388).

Degrees, and influx according to degrees (433, 434).

Man is a form of the three degrees; celestial, spiritual, and natural (699).