Conjugial similitude and dissimilitude (765-882).

Various things respecting concordance and discordance of affections (766-840 [CL 227-229, 246, 271, seq.]). (See AFFECTION.) There is compatibility and there is incompatibility between the affections of men and women (841-844).

Hence there is conjugial similitude and dissimilitude (845-852).

There are various similitudes of conjugial love, and there are various dissimilitudes of it (853-859 [CL 227]).

The various similitudes of conjugial love can be accommodated and conjoined, but not with the various dissimilitudes (860-809* [CL 228]).

With those who go to the Lord, and who have a desire for love truly conjugial, a conjugial similitude is provided by Him (810-817 [CL 49, 229]).

Similitude and dissimilitude effect nothing with those who are in scortatory love (818-822).

There are external similitudes, for the sake of which matrimonies are formed in the world; but if they are not at the same time internal, those matrimonies are dissolved after death (822-833 [CL 48, 49, 274]).

Of external similitudes, eight kinds are enumerated (823-833).

An exterior cause of coldness between consorts is dissimilitude of external minds (animorum) and of manners (929-934 [CL 246]);

Also inequalities of state and condition of the two parties in external things (935-938 [CL 250]).

Various things concerning similitude of souls and of minds, also concerning similitude of external minds (animorum) and manners, and of state and condition in society (1606, 1607, [CL 49]).

Union of souls according to similitudes (1607).