Swedenborg Library (Volume 42-49) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1847. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... come the delight of delights. Moreover the angels have related wonderful things respecting these delights; adding further, that their varieties in the souls - of conjugial pairs, and from their souls in their minds, and from their minds in their breasts, are infinite and also eternal; and that they are exalted'according to the prevalence of wisdom with the husband; and this, because they livato eternity in the flower of their age, and because they know no greater blessedness than to grow wiser and wiser."--C. i, 65-69. It would seem from this that there can be no real conflictbetween the demands of this love and of that supreme love to God and the neighbor which lies at the basis of a true heavenly state. The character which is the subject of celestial bliss is necessarily made up of the union of goodness and- truth, or love and wisdom, and this union is the very essence of the marriage relation, the man being from his nature the impersonation of the Wisdom principle-and the woman of the Love principle, the actual conjunction of both being requisite to a perfect image of Jehovah, who is infinite Wisdom and infinite Love in indissoluble union. Here, then, as elsewhere, the doctrine of Swedenborg can only be denied by denying the fundamental principle on which it rests. And I would ask whether a view of this tender relation, exalting it to a dignity and sanctity which had never before been conceived of, does not entitle its author to the reverence and esteem, of all those who devoutly value the Divine institutions ? Could you be induced to give a candid perusal to the treatise on " Conjugial Love," you would find, I think, that however it might be on other points, yet on this your objections were super-abundantly answered. XIII. Enjoyments and Pleasures o...