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 into this; for this love above all others opens the interior recesses of the soul, through which gush the streams of life pure from their eternal Fountain.

"As conjugial love," says Swedenborg, "is the fundamental love of all good loves, and as it is inscribed on the most minute particulars of man, it follows that its pleasures exceed those of all other loves, and also that it makes other loves pleasant according to its presence and its conjunction with them; for it expands the inmosts of the mind and at the same time of the body, as the delightful current of its fountain flows through and opens them. All pleasures from first to last are gathered into this love, because of the superior excellence of its use above all others, which is the propagation of the human race and thence of the angelic heaven; and because this use was the end of ends in creation, it follows that all the blessedness, happiness, gladness, gratifications and pleasures, which could possibly be conferred on man by the Lord the Creator, are gathered into this love."—C. L. n. 68.

"Conjugial love in its origin is from the marriage of good and truth, and this marriage is from the Lord. And because love is such that it wills to make another whom it loves from the heart, a partaker of, yea, to confer upon him, joys, and from thence itself to take its own; infinitely more, therefore, does the Divine Love which is in the Lord, will thus toward man whom He created a receptacle both of love and wisdom proceeding from Himself. And because He created him into the reception of these, the man into the reception of wisdom and the woman into the reception of the love of the wisdom of the man, therefore from inmosts He infused into men (homines) conjugial love, into which He might bring together all things blessed, satisfactory, agreeable and delicious, which proceed together with