Conjugial Love (Rogers) n. 212

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212. The opposite happens in the case of people who are not in any state of conjugial love owing to a lack of any love of wisdom in them. People like this do not enter into marriages except with the purpose of indulging their lascivious lusts, and this purpose has in it a love of thinking insanely. For every purpose regarded in its essence is love, and lasciviousness in its spiritual origin is a form of insanity. By insanity we mean a derangement of the mind resulting from falsities, and the derangement is pronounced when it is a derangement of mind resulting from falsifications of truths, even to the point that the falsifications are believed to be matters of wisdom. Clear confirmation and proof that people like this are opposed to conjugial love appears in the spiritual world. There, at the first scent of conjugial love, they flee into caverns and shut the doors; and if these are opened, they go insane like madmen in the world.


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