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Genesis 1:9

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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.

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Marriage #34

  
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34. (19) Conjugial love depends upon the wife's love, and such too is the husband's love reciprocally; the wife's love does not depend on her husband's love. The reason is that just as the will acts on the understanding, good acts on truth; that is why it is said that a man ought to cleave to his wife. The reverse is true of those who are not in conjugial love.

  
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Arcana Coelestia #1117

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1117. They live in the brightest light, to which the light of this world scarcely stands comparison. I have been shown that light as a flaming light which so to speak streamed down before my eyes. Those who belonged to the Most Ancient Church said that such light existed with them, and still more intense.

  
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