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.

9122. Those who have not acquired conscience in the world cannot acquire conscience in the next life. So they cannot be saved, since there is no field established in them for heaven to come into and act on, that is, for the Lord to do so through heaven, so that He may draw them to Himself. For conscience is the field of activity and receptacle for heaven to come into. Consequently in the next life people such as these pass into communities of those who love self and the world above all things, that is, who are in hell.