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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And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.
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And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
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Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:
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Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
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And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.
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But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,
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And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.
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For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.
