70. Conjugial love comes down from the marriage of good and truth

It became known to me from long experience that no one has conjugial love unless he is in the love of truth from good, and in the love of good by means of truth, that is, in the heavenly marriage; and that he cannot be in any mutual love of good and truth unless he shuns adultery and loathes it like hell. This holds even for those who have lived in marriage in the world and have loved their wife for the sake of cohabitation, the pleasure of life on earth for the sake of children. For celestial things ought to flow into conjugial love, and man comes into his celestial and spiritual things after death, and then becomes completely as he was formerly in that respect; it cannot be otherwise.

The color green is almost exclusively used in connection with plants in the Bible, and the meaning is closely connected to the meaning of plants as well. Plants, in general, represent facts, knowledge that we can gather from the world. Green plants are ones that are alive and growing. Since life represents love and goodness, it makes sense that green plants are facts that have the potential for good use. It also indicates that they are the kinds of things we learn through directly through our senses, since to identify green plants we need to actually see the greenness.

(Ссылки: Apocalypse Explained 507; Apocalypse Revealed 426; Arcana Coelestia 7691)