married pair who are in that love, and who mutually regard each other
from that love. But such heavenly bliss, which inmostly affects the
delights of loves, and is called peace, can be granted only to those who
can be joined together inmostly, that is, as to their very hearts.
(A.E., n. 997.)

Man has such and so much of intelligence and wisdom as he has of
marriage love. The reason is that marriage love descends from the love
of good and truth as an effect does from its cause, or as the natural
from its spiritual; and from the marriage of good and truth the angels
of the three heavens have all their intelligence and wisdom; for
intelligence and wisdom are nothing else than the reception of light and
heat from the Lord as a sun, that is, the reception of Divine truth
joined to Divine good, and of Divine good joined to Divine truth; thus
it is a marriage of good and truth from the Lord.

That it is such has been made clearly evident by angels in the heavens.
When these are separated from their consorts they are indeed in
intelligence, but not in wisdom; but when they are with their consorts
they are also in wisdom; and what seemed wonderful, as they turn the
face to their consort they are to the same extent in a state of wisdom;
for the conjunction of truth and good is effected in the spiritual world
by looking; and the wife there is good and the husband truth; therefore
as truth turns itself to good so truth becomes living. By intelligence
and wisdom ingenuity in reasoning about truths and goods is not meant,
but a capacity to see and understand truths and goods, and this capacity
man has from the Lord. (A.E., n. 998.)

True marriage love is a source of power and protection against the
hells, as it is against the evils and falsities that ascend from the