531.  VI.  THUS CONJUGIAL LOVE IS IMPUTED TO EVERY ONE.  There are marriages in which conjugial love does not appear, and yet is:  and there are marriages in which conjugial love appears and yet is not:  there are several causes in both cases, which may be known in part from what was related concerning love truly conjugial, n. 57-73; concerning the cause of colds and separations, n. 234-260; and concerning the causes of apparent love and friendship in marriages, n. 271-292:  but external appearances decide nothing concerning imputation; the only thing which decides is the conjugial principle, which abides in every one’s will, and is guarded, in whatever state of marriage a man is.  The conjugial principle is like a scale, in which that love is weighed; for the conjugial principle of one man with one wife is the storehouse of human life, and the reservoir of the Christian religion, as was shewn above, n. 457, 458; and this being the case, it is possible that that love may exist with one married partner, and not at the same time with the other; and that it may lie deeper hid than that the man (homo) himself can observe any thing concerning it; and also it may be inscribed in a successive progress of the life.  The reason of this is, because that love in its progress accompanies religion, and religion, as it is the marriage of the Lord and the church, is the beginning and inoculation of that love; wherefore conjugial love is imputed to every one after death according to his spiritual rational life; and for him to whom that love is imputed, a marriage in heaven is provided after his decease, whatever has been his marriage in the world.  From these considerations then results this short concluding observation, that no inference is to be drawn concerning any one, from appearances of marriages or of adulteries, whereby to decide that he has conjugial love, or not; wherefore Judge not, lest ye be condemned.  Matt. vii. 1.

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532.  To the above I will add the following MEMORABLE RELATION.  I was once raised, as to my spirit, into one of the societies of the angelic heaven; and instantly some of the wise men of the society came to me, and said, “What news from the earth?” I replied, “This is new; the Lord has revealed arcana which in point of excellence surpass all the arcana heretofore revealed since the beginning of the church.”  They asked, “What are they?” I said, “The following:  1.  That in every part of the Word there is a spiritual sense corresponding to the natural sense; and that by means of the former sense the men of the church have conjunction with the Lord and consociation with angels; and that the sanctity of the Word resides therein. 2.  That the correspondences are discovered of which the spiritual sense of the Word consists.”  The angels asked, “Have the inhabitants of the earth had no previous knowledge respecting correspondences?” I said, “None at all;” and that the doctrine