Arcana Coelestia volume 7 - Swedenborg Foundation

ARCANA COELESTIA 3634content in the Lord. From this he has in this world an inwardpleasantness, and in the other life heavenly joy; but when he passesfrom this love into the opposite, and finds in this a delight thatseems to him heavenly, although it is infernal, then such a dog ispresented as a guard lest there should be a communication betweenthese opposite delights.5052. The Lord instills conjugial love through the inmostheaven, the angels of which are in peace beyond all others. Peace inthe heavens is comparatively like springtime in the world, whichrenders all things joyous, for in its origin peace is the celestial itself.The angels who are in the inmost heaven are the wisest of all, andfrom their innocence they appear to others as infants, for they loveinfants much more than do their fathers and mothers. They arepresent with infants in the womb, and through them the Lord caresfor the feeding and full development of the infants therein; thusthey have charge over those who are with child.5053. There are heavenly societies to which correspond all andeach of the members and organs allotted to generation in bothsexes. These societies are distinct from others, just as this provincein man is quite distinct and separate from the rest. The reason whythese societies are celestial is that conjugial love is the fundamentallove of all loves (n. 686, 2733, 2737, 2738). It also excels the restin use, and consequently in delight; for marriages are the nurseriesof the whole human race, and are also the nurseries of the Lord’sheavenly kingdom; for heaven is from the human race.5054. They who have loved infants most tenderly, as for instancesuch mothers, are in the province of the womb and the organsround about, namely, in the province of the neck of the womb andof the ovaries; and they who are there are in a life most sweet andsoft, and are in heavenly joy beyond others.5055. But what and of what quality those heavenly societies arewhich belong to the several organs of generation, it has not beengiven me to know; for they are too interior to be comprehended byanyone who is in a lower sphere. They bear relation to the uses of