In general, men are driven by intellect and women by affections, and because of this men in the Bible generally represent knowledge and truth and women generally represent love and the desire for good. This generally carries over into marriage, where the man's growing knowledge and understanding and the woman's desire to be good and useful are a powerful combination. In many cases in the Bible, then, "husband" refers to things of truth and understanding, much as "man" does. Magnificent things can happen in a true marriage, though, when both partners are looking to the Lord. If a husband opens his heart to his wife, it's as though she can implant her loves inside him, transforming his intellectual urges into a love of growing wise. She in turn can grow in her love of that blooming wisdom, and use it for joy in their married life and in their caring for children and others in their life. Many couples, even in heaven, stay in that state -- called "Spiritual" -- growing deeper and deeper to eternity. There is the potential, though, for the couple to be transformed: through the nurturing love of his wife the husband can pass from a love of growing wise to an actual love of wisdom itself, and the wife can be transformed from the love of her husband's wisdom into the wisdom of that love -- the actual expression of the love of the Lord they have built together. In that state -- called "Celestial" -- the husband represents love and the desire for good, and the wife represents truth and knowledge.

5181. From the spirallings also one can gain some idea about which particular province in the Grand Man, and correspondingly in the body, spirits and angels belong to. The spirallings of those who belong to the province of the Lymphatic System are thin and quick in action, like water flowing smoothly, so that scarcely any spiralling movement can be detected. Those who belong to the lymphatic system are eventually brought into places which, they have said, are the counterpart to the Mesentery. I have been told that here there are labyrinths so to speak, from which, like chyle in the body, they are then borne away to various places in the Grand Man to serve some useful purpose there.