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HEAVEN AND HELL 302
another aspect, although it is similar and accordant, like soul
and body, and like cause and effect; as can be seen from what
has been said and shown in the two chapters on
correspondences.
374. I heard an angel describing true marriage love and its
heavenly delights in this manner: That it is the Lord’s Divine
in the heavens, which is Divine good and Divine truth so
united in two persons, that they are not as two but as one. He
said that in heaven the two consorts are marriage love, since
everyone is his own good and his own truth in respect both to
mind and to body, the body being an image of the mind
because it is formed after its likeness. From this he drew the
conclusion that the Divine is imaged in the two that are in true
marriage love; and as the Divine is so imaged so is heaven,
because the entire heaven is Divine good and Divine truth
going forth from the Lord; and this is why all things of heaven
are inscribed on marriage love with more blessings and delights
than it is possible to number.
He expressed the number by a term that involved myriads of
myriads. He wondered that the man of the church should
know nothing about this, seeing that the church is the Lord’s
heaven on the earth, and heaven is a marriage of good and
truth. He said he was astounded to think that within the
church, even more than outside of it, adulteries are committed
and even justified; the delight of which in itself is nothing else
in a spiritual sense, and consequently in the spiritual world,
than the delight of the love of falsity conjoined to evil, which
delight is infernal delight, because it is the direct opposite of
the delight of heaven, which is the delight of the love of truth
conjoined with good.
375. Everyone knows that a married pair who love each
other are interiorly united, and that the essential of marriage is
the union of dispositions and minds. And from this it can be
seen that such as their essential dispositions or minds are, such
is their union and such their love for each other. The mind is