Conjugial Love

by Emanuel Swedenborg

Table of Contents

Part One: Delights of Wisdom Relating to Conjugial Love

Introduction: The Joys of Heaven and a Wedding There
Marriages in Heaven
The State of Married Partners after Death
Truly Conjugial Love
The Origin of Conjugial Love from the Marriage Between Good and Truth
The Marriage of the Lord and the Church and Correspondence to It
Chastity and Its Absence
The Conjunction of Souls and Minds by Marriage, Meant by the Lord's Saying That They Are No Longer Two But One Flesh
The Change in the State of of Life in Men and Women Made by Marriage
Universal Matters Relating to Marriages
Reasons in Marriage for Cold States, Separation and Divorce
Reasons in Marriage for Apparent Love, Friendship and Favor
Betrothals and Weddings
Second Marriages
Polygamy
Jealousness
The Conjunction of Conjugial Love with a Love of Little Children

Part Two: Pleasures of Insanity Relating to Licentious Love

The Opposition of Licentious Love to Conjugial Love
Fornication
Taking a Mistress
Adultery in Its Kinds and Degrees
The Lust to Deflower
The Lust for Variety
The Lust to Rape
The Lust to Seduce States of Innocence
The Correspondence of Licentiousness to Violation of the Spiritual Marriage
The Imputation of Each Love, Licentious and Conjugial