83. POTENCY (Potentia).
Angels have perpetual potency, because they are in perpetual love (illustrated, 68 [CL 207, 355, 356, 433]).
Whence angels have perpetual potency, confirmed by reasons presented by an angel (Memorabilia 222 [CL 355, 356]).
Determinations to the ultimate delight are in the good pleasure of the husband (258-262 [CL 221]).
Wives cannot bear to hear their husbands say that they are able but not willing; they can, however, bear to hear it said that they are willing but not able: the latter perpetuates love, but the former dissolves it (266-268 [CL 219]).
Increase of potency according to the opening of the interiors of the mind (539-548, 549-560 [CL 220]).
Conjugial love, according to its spiritual state, produces potency; nine reasons (639-663).
Impotence is a cause of coldness and separation between consorts (972-978 [CL 254]).
Various causes and species of impotence (972-978 [CL 221]).
He who is in love truly conjugial is in its virtue and its potency (1024-1028 [CL 55, 355, 433]).
Correspondence of seminal potency with reception of spiritual truths through the Word (various things, 1458 [CL 127, 220]).
Also various things concerning natural and spiritual conjugial potency (1360 [CL 355, 433]).
Natural and spiritual conjugial love and potency (1459-1652 [CL 44, 55, 207, 220, 221, 355, 433]).
Various causes of potency (1562, 1564).
By spiritual conjugial potency is meant potency such as those have who are in the truths and goods of the church (1563-1565).
Various things concerning natural potency from spiritual (1564). There is natural conjugial potency from the love of the sex, which when not limited to the wife is lewdness; and the potency of this is lasciviousness (1566).
Spiritual conjugial potency is from conjugial love, with one wife: when this [potency] becomes conjugial it is chastity, and its potency is without lasciviousness (1567).
Natural conjugial potency successively decreases, as its love, which is lewdness, is not limited (1568-1573).
But spiritual conjugial love successively increases, as its love, which is heavenly, is purified from lascivious love of the sex (1574).
Natural conjugial potency decreases even till it becomes nought; but that which is spiritual increases even till it becomes constant (1574-1577).
Natural conjugial potency successively extinguishes the interior fire of man's life, and dims its light; but that which is spiritual successively kindles the fire of man's life and exalts its light (1579).
Natural conjugial potency deprives the soul and the spirit of their own beatitudes and delights; the contrary is the case with that which is spiritual (1580-1582). The man who is in spiritual conjugial potency, from chaste love becomes a more and more internal and perfect man; the opposite is the case with him who is in natural potency (1583, 1584).
Potency is an external or natural cause of love or of friendship between consorts (1609, 1610 [CL 49, 274, 290]).
Judgments of the wise from the kingdoms of Europe, concerning the origin of conjugial love, and concerning its virtue and potency (Memorabilia 1718 [CL 103-114]).
Concerning seminal potency, - when it begins (1799 [CL 446]).