What the masculine is, and what the feminine. With the male, love veils itself with wisdom; and with woman, this wisdom veils itself with love; thus woman is the love of the wisdom which is in man, and thus she was taken out of man (shown, 6, 7, 52 [CL 88-91]).

The love of the sex is the most universal of all, and hence in every smallest particular; without it the world would perish (14, 15 [CL 37, 38]).

Masculine and feminine are implanted from creation in all the subjects of the vegetable kingdom and of the animal kingdom; they are implanted most interiorly, and this from creation (16).

The love of the sex is primarily in the souls of men (17).

The male is born into the capacity of loving to know, to understand, and to be wise; and the female into the love of these in the husband (illustrated, 53 [CL 90, 91]). Consequently they become a one by marriage (54 [CL 91]). These reasons why they were so created; first, that there may be propagation of offspring and of wisdom; second, it is from the love of the Lord towards the human race, that they may be happy; third, because they would otherwise love themselves (n 54).