Marriage #34
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.
Arcana Coelestia #1117
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.