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Matteus 11:29

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29 Ta mitt åk eder og lær av mig! for jeg er saktmodig og ydmyk av hjertet; så skal I finne hvile for eders sjeler.

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Marriage #111

Studere hoc loco

  
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111. Few people today know what true conjugial love is and what is its origin, because few are in it. Almost all believe that it is inborn and thus emanates from a kind of instinct, as they say; and they believe this the more because a conjugial principle exists among animals, when there is such a difference between conjugial love with human beings and the conjugial principle with beasts, as there is between the state of a human being and that of a brute animal.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.