they are multiplied with continued increase to eternity. These delights
have their origin in the fact that the married pair wish to be united
into one in respect to their minds, and into such a union heaven
breathes from the marriage of good and truth from the Lord in heaven.
(A.E., n. 992.)

That true marriage love contains in itself ineffable delights that can
neither be numbered nor described can be seen from the fact that this is
the fundamental love of all celestial and spiritual loves, since through
that love man becomes love; for from it each of the married pair loves
the other as good loves truth and truth loves good, thus
representatively as the Lord loves heaven and the church. Such a love
can come forth only through a marriage in which the man is truth and the
wife is good. When a man through marriage has become such a love he is
also in love to the Lord and in love toward the neighbor, and thus in a
love for all good and in a love for all truth. For from man as a love
loves of every kind must proceed; therefore marriage love is the
fundamental love of all the loves of heaven. And as it is the
fundamental love of all the loves of heaven it is also the foundation of
all the delights and joys of heaven, since every delight and joy is of
love. From this it follows that heavenly joys, in their order and in
their degrees, have their origins and their causes in marriage love.

From the felicities of marriages a conclusion may be drawn respecting
the infelicities of adulteries, namely, that the love of adultery is the
fundamental love of all infernal loves, which are in themselves not
loves, but hatreds, consequently from the love of adultery hatreds of
every kind gush forth, both against God and against the neighbor, and in
general against every good and truth of heaven and the church; therefore
to it all infelicities belong, for, as has been said before, from