The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 291 pages of information about The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love.

The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 291 pages of information about The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love.

432.  VIII.  ADULTEROUS LOVE MORE AND MORE MAKES A MAN (homo) NOT A MAN (homo), AND A MAN (vir) NOT A MAN (vir), AND CONJUGIAL LOVE MAKES A MAN (homo) MORE AND MORE A MAN (homo), AND A MAN (vir).  That conjugial love makes a man (homo) is illustrated and confirmed by all the considerations which were clearly and rationally demonstrated in the first part of this work, concerning love and the delights of its wisdom; as 1.  That he that is principled in love truly conjugial, becomes more and more spiritual; and in proportion as any one is more spiritual, in the same proportion he is more a man (homo). 2.  That he becomes more and more wise; and the wiser any one is, so much the more is he a man (homo). 3.  That with such a one the interiors of the mind are more and more opened, insomuch that he sees or intuitively acknowledges the Lord; and the more any one is in the sight or acknowledgement, the more he is a man. 4.  That he becomes more and more moral and civil, inasmuch as a spiritual soul is in his morality and civility; and the more any one is morally civil, the more he is a man. 5.  That also after death he becomes an angel of heaven; and an angel is in essence and form a man; and also the genuine human principle in his face shines forth from his conversation and manners:  from these considerations it is manifest, that conjugial love makes a man (homo) more and more a man (homo).  That the contrary is the case with adulterers, follows as a consequence from the opposition of adultery and marriage, which is the subject treated of in this chapter; as, 1.  That they are not spiritual but in the highest degree natural; and the natural man separate from the spiritual man, is a man only as to the understanding, but not as to the will:  this he immerses in the body and the concupiscences of the flesh, and at those times the understanding also accompanies it.  That such a one is but half a man (homo), he himself may see from the reason of his understanding, in ease he elevates it. 2.  That adulterers are not wise, except in their conversation and behaviour, when they are in the company of such as are in high station, or as are distinguished for their learning or their morals; but that when alone with themselves they are insane, setting at nought the divine and holy things of the church, and defiling the morals of life with immodest and unchaste principles, will be shewn in the chapter concerning adulteries.  Who does not see that such gesticulators are men only as to external figure, and not as to internal form? 3.  That adulterers become more and more not men, has been abundantly confirmed to me by what I have myself been eye-witness to respecting them in hell:  for there they are demons, and when seen in the light of heaven, appear to have their faces full of pimples, their bodies bunched out, their voice rough, and their gestures antic.  But it is to be observed, that such are determined and confirmed adulterers, but not non-deliberate adulterers: 

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