Heaven and Hell - Swedenborg Foundation

HEAVEN AND HELL 303
formed solely out of truths and goods, for all things in the
universe have relation to good and truth and to their
conjunction; consequently such as the truths and goods are out
of which the minds are formed, exactly such is the union of
minds; and consequently the most perfect union is the union
of minds that are formed out of genuine truths and goods. Let
it be known that no two things mutually love each other more
than truth and good do; and therefore it is from that love that
true marriage love descends. 244
Falsity and evil also love each
other, but this love is afterwards changed into hell.
376. From what has now been said about the origin of
marriage love one may conclude who are in that love and who
are not; namely, that those are in marriage love who are in
Divine good from Divine truths; and that marriage love is
genuine just to the extent that the truths are genuine with
which the good is conjoined. And as all the good that is
conjoined with truths is from the Lord, it follows that no one
can be in true marriage love unless he acknowledges the Lord
and his Divine; for without that acknowledgment the Lord
cannot flow in and be conjoined with the truths that are in
man.
377. Evidently, then, those that are in falsities, and especially
those that are in falsities from evil, are not in marriage love.
Moreover, those that are in evil and in falsities therefrom have
the interiors of their minds closed up; and in such, therefore,
244. All things in the universe, both in heaven and in the world, have
relation to good and truth (n. 2452, 3166, 4390, 4409, 5232, 7256, 10122).
And to the conjunction of these (n. 10555). Between good and truth there is
marriage (n. 1904, 2173, 2508).
Good loves truth, and from love longs for truth and for the conjunction
of truth with itself, and from this they are in a perpetual endeavor to be
conjoined (n. 9206, 9207, 9495). The life of truth is from good (n. 1589,
1997, 2572, 4070, 4096, 4097, 4736, 4757, 4884, 5147, 9667). Truth is the
form of good (n. 3049, 3180, 4574, 9154).
Truth is to good as water is to bread (n. 4976).