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 female created He them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam," that is, man—for this is what Adam in the Hebrew means. Accordingly Swedenborg says, that "in heaven two married partners are not called two but one angel." —H. H. n. 367.

Spiritually viewed, then, man and woman differ as do the will and understanding, or the heart and lungs, and are similarly adapted each to the other. The masculine soul is preëminently intellectual, and the feminine preeminently emotional. Or in other words, man is born into the affection of knowing, understanding and being wise; and woman into the love of man's wisdom, not in herself but in the man, and consequently into the love of conjoining herself with the intellect or wisdom of the man. Accordingly Swedenborg says:

"The woman feels the delights of her love in the wisdom of the man, because this is its receptacle; and when love finds this receptacle corresponding to itself, it is in its enjoyments and delights."—C. L. n. 189.

And precisely this difference in their mental constitution, is indicated by the physical structure or form of man and woman respectively. For the masculine form—being coarser, stronger, and more angular—is a form of the intellect; and the feminine form—bcing fairer, more delicate and beautiful—is a form of affection. Not that man is wholly destitute of affection, and woman of intellect; but viewed in relation to each other, their minds are thus characterized—man being preëminently intellectual, and woman preëminently emotional or affectional. Love is the native element of woman's soul, as truth is that of man's. And so the sexes stand re-