heart to do each other every good. From all of these come blessedness,
satisfaction, agreeableness and pleasure; and as the eternal fruition
of them, heavenly happiness. These states can be realized only in the
marriage of one man with one wife.

--_Conjugial Love, nn._ 180, 181




THE SACRED SCRIPTURES


"They testify of Me."

--_John_, V, 39


GOD'S WORD

In its inmosts the Sacred Scripture is no other than God, that is, the
Divine which proceeds from God.... In its derivatives it is
accommodated to the perception of angels and men. In these it is
Divine likewise, but in another form, in which this Divine is called
"Celestial," "Spiritual," and "Natural." These are no other than
coverings of God. Still the Divine, which is inmost, and is covered
with such things as are accommodated to the perceptions of angels and
men, shines forth like light through crystalline forms, but variously,
according to the state of mind which a man has formed for himself,
either from God or from self. In the sight of the man who has formed