Marriage #71
71. Conjugial love makes man be love
Man is created to be love and consequently wisdom, since the Lord is Divine Love and Divine Wisdom. It is by creation that man is an image and likeness of the Lord,Genesis 1:26-27; and this could not happen without true conjugial love. By this man's all can be turned into love, for in marriage either may love from the heart the body too, and thus dispose the soul and consequently everything to the form of love. This is not otherwise possible; the inmost and the outermost there make one and bring about that form, which is the form of heaven.
Mark 5:1-8
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They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.
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When he had come out of the boat, immediately a man with an unclean spirit met him out of the tombs.
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He lived in the tombs. Nobody could bind him any more, not even with chains,
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because he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the fetters broken in pieces. Nobody had the strength to tame him.
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Always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones.
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When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and bowed down to him,
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and crying out with a loud voice, he said, "What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, don't torment me."
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For he said to him, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!"
