The delights of wisdom pertaining to conjugial love : after which follows the pleasures of insanity pertaining to scortatory love / by Emanuel Swedenborg ; translated by Samuel M. Warren ; translation revised by Louis H. Tafel.

  • Emmanuel Swedenborg
Date:
1909
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Credit: The delights of wisdom pertaining to conjugial love : after which follows the pleasures of insanity pertaining to scortatory love / by Emanuel Swedenborg ; translated by Samuel M. Warren ; translation revised by Louis H. Tafel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (11) That conjugial love is according to the state of the church, be- cause it is according to the state of wisdom with man (n. 130). (12) And that, because the church is from the Lord conjugial love also is from Him (n. 131). On the Chaste and the Non-Chaste (n. 138-156). (1) That chaste and non-chaste are [only] predicated of marriages, and of such things as pertain to marriage (n. 139, 140). (2) That chaste is predicated only of monogamic marriages, or those of one man with one wife (n. 141). (3) That only the Christian conjugial is chaste (n. 142). (4) That love truly conjugial is chastity itself (n. 143). (5) That all the delights of love truly conjugial, even the ultimate, are chaste (n. 144). (6) That with those who become spiritual from the Lord, conjugial love is purified more and more, and becomes chaste (n. 145,146). (7) That chastity arises through the total renunciation of scorta- tions, from religion (n. 147-149). (8) That chastity cannot be predicated of infants; nor of boys and girls; nor of young men and virgins before they feel the love of the sex with themselves (n. 150). (9) That chastity cannot be predicated of those born eunuchs; nor of those made eunuchs (n. 161a). (10) That chastity cannot be predicated of those who do not believe adulteries to be evils of religion; and still less of those who do not believe adulteries to be hurtful to society .. (n. 152a). (11) That chastity cannot be predicated of those who abstain from adulteries for various external reasons only (n. 153). (12) That chastity cannot be predicated of those who believe mar- riages to be unchaste (n. 154). (13) That chastity cannot be predicated of those who have renounced marriages by vowing perpetual celibacy, unless there is and remains in them a love of a life truly conjugial (n. 155). (14) That the state of marriage is to be preferred to a state of celibacy (n. 156). Of the Conjunction of Souls and Minds bt Marriage, which is meant by the lord's words, they shall be no more twain, but one Flesh (n. 156o-181). (1) That there is inherent in each sex, by creation, the faculty and the inclination whereby they are able and desire to be con- joined as into one (n. 157). (2) That conjugial love conjoins two souls and thence two minds into one (n. 158). (3) That the will of the wife conjoins itself with the understanding of the man; and hence the understanding of the man with the will of the wife (n. 169).