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Genesis 1

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1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first Day.

6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.

14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

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Marriage # 20

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20. (7) Heavenly joy is founded upon conjugial love.

  
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Spiritual Experiences # 6051

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6051. About the love of adulteries, about the love of ruling, about deceit, etc.

The extent to which adulteries and other sins are hellish is to be described, as here regarding adulteries, that it is [hellish] to believe that adultery is permissible, whether one commits adultery or not. Scarcely anyone today believes that they are so hellish and that adulterers cannot be saved. The reasons for this are:

1. ) heaven is marriage, and hell is adultery;

[2] 2) because marriage love descends from the marriage of good and truth, adultery from the marriage of evil and falsity;

[3] 3) because offspring are born from marriage depending on the nature of the marriage love and the infernal love;

[4] 4) In heaven they abhor adultery, because it closes heaven and opens hell wide.

[5] 5) Through marriage love a person takes on the form of love, inwardly and outwardly; through adultery the form of hell; and heavenly love is implanted solely through marriage love.

[6] 6) Marriage love is the fundamental of all loves, for when a person becomes a form of love, they become an image of the Lord; otherwise the reverse happens.

[7] 7) For that reason the delights of marriage love exceed other delights in number and in quality.

[8] 8) Heavenly joy is founded upon this love in heaven, so that in so far as anyone has this love, so far they have heavenly joy of every kind and degree.

[9] 9) Wisdom grows through marriages in the heavens, which is in place of procreation there.

[10] 10) There is doctrinal adultery in the case of preachers in hell, which differs from natural adultery, about this.

[11] 11) The reason the growth of wisdom follows in accord with the degree of chastity is that its origin is the marriage of good and truth and the marriage of the Lord with the Church; its cause comes from this. For this reason no one can be wise in spiritual matters who is an adulterer. Consequently so far as one is an adulterer, so far is he blind in spiritual matters, and so far is he inwardly a devil.

[12] 12) Therefore to love one's married partner is to do good in the Lord's eyes, for this, when it comes from a chaste heart, is to love the Lord: it communicates with the heavens, and delights the minds of angels so much that it cannot be believed.

[13] 13) There is also a certain form of intercourse, because it is an effect of love, that delights heaven in like degree when it comes from chaste love; conversely it angers them to the extent it comes from adultery.

[14] 14) Bring forward examples showing that adulterers, however morally they may have lived in other respects and devoted themselves to prayers, are hurled into hell.

[Marginal Note: The reproductive organs in both sexes interact with the inmost or third heaven, where the angels more than others have a heavenly marriage, that is to say, a marriage of goodness and truth. In a word, marriages in the heavens are most holy, on which account they must not be profaned by adulteries.]

  
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Thanks to the Academy of the New Church, and Bryn Athyn College, for the permission to use this translation.