world infernal marriages between married partners, who interiorly are the most inveterate enemies, and exteriorly are as the closest friends, 292.  Of marriages in heaven, 27-41.  How in heaven marriages from love truly conjugial are provided by the Lord, 229, 316.  Spiritual prolification of love and wisdom from marriages in heaven, 52.  Beneath heaven there are no marriages (conjugia), 192.  Concerning the marriage of the Lord and the church, and the correspondence thereof, 116-131.

MARRIAGE, the, of God and truth, 83, 115.  The reason why it has been heretofore unknown, 83.  How it takes place with man, 122, 123.  It is the church with man, and is the same thing as the marriage of charity and faith, 62.  The marriage of good and truth is in every thing of the Word, 516; from this marriage proceed all the loves which constitute heaven and the church with man, 65.  The marriage of good and truth flows into every thing of the universe, 220, 84.  To be given in marriage signifies to enter heaven, where the marriage of good and truth takes place, 44.

MARRIED PARTNERS, two, who are principled in love truly conjugial, are actually forms of the marriage of good and truth, or of love and wisdom, 66, 101, 102.  The will of the wife conjoins itself with the understanding of the man, and thence the understanding of the man with the will of the wife, 159, 160.  Love is inspired into the man by his wife, 161.  The conjunction of the wife with the man’s rational principle is from within, 165.  The wife is conjoined to her husband by the sphere of her life flowing forth from the love of him, 171-173.  There are duties proper to the man, and duties proper to the wife; the wife cannot enter into the duties proper to the man, nor can the man enter into the duties proper to the wife, so as to perform them aright, 174, 175.  Marriage induces other forms in the souls and minds of married partners, 192.  The woman is actually formed into a wife according to the description in the book of creation, Gen. ii. 21, 22, 23, 193.  Two married partners in heaven are called, not two angels, but one angel, 50.  Two married partners most commonly meet after death, know each other, again associate, &c. 49.  If they can live together, they remain married partners, but if they cannot, they separate themselves, 49, 51, 52.

MARROW, spinal, 315.—­The marrows represent the interiors of the mind and of the body, 312.

MARRY, to.—­When a man marries he becomes a fuller man, because he is joined with a consort, with whom he acts as one man, 59.  See Marriage.

MARY signifies the church, 119.

MATERIALS.—­Substantials are the beginnings of materials, 328.  Natural things, which are material, cannot enter into spiritual things, which are substantial. 328, Material things originate in substantial, 207.

MATERIAL things derive their origin from things substantial, 207.

MECHANICS is one of the sciences by which an entrance is made into things rational, which are the ground of rational wisdom. 163.