Marriage # 112
112. Conjugial love takes its origin from the marriage of the Lord with heaven and with the Church, and consequently from the marriage of good and truth. It is not apparent to the senses or comprehension that conjugial love takes its inmost essence from that source; but it can be established from influx and from correspondence, as well as from the Word. From influx: heaven is compared to a marriage, and is called a marriage, from the union of good and truth, which flows in from the Lord. From correspondence: when good united with truth flows down into a lower sphere, it produces a union of minds; when into an even lower sphere, it produces a marriage. Therefore the union of minds from good united with truth proceeding from the Lord is conjugial love itself.
Luke 11:5-11
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He said to them, "Which of you, if you go to a friend at midnight, and tell him, 'friend, lend me three loaves of bread,
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for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him,'
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and he from within will answer and say, 'Don't bother me. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I can't get up and give it to you'?
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I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs.
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"I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.
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For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
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"Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won't give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?
