368. (7) Jealousness is a kind of blazing fire against those who attack the love shared with a married partner, and a kind of trembling fear at the thought of losing that love. We consider here the jealousness of people who share a spiritual love with their married partner; under the next heading, the jealousness of those who have a natural love; and after that, the jealousness of those who are in a state of truly conjugial love. With respect to people who share a spiritual love, the jealousness in them varies, because their love varies; for whether it is a spiritual one or natural, never is any one love entirely the same in two people, still less in a number. [2] Spiritual jealousness, or jealousness in spiritual people, is a kind of blazing fire against those who attack their conjugial love, because the origin of the love in them lies in the inner elements of each partner, and from its origin their love follows its derivative effects to its outmost expressions, which, together with its initial elements, hold the intermediate elements of the mind and body in loving connection. Because they are spiritual people, in their marriage they look to union as their goal, and in that union to spiritual tranquillity and its gratifications. So, then, because they have from their hearts rejected the idea of separation, therefore their jealousness is like a fire disturbed and leaping out against those who attack that union. [3] Their jealousness includes as well a kind of trembling fear, because their spiritual love intends that they two be one. Consequently, if the possibility of separation arises, or an appearance of it occurs, they experience a fear that causes them to tremble, as whenever two united parts are pulled apart. This description of jealousness was given to me from heaven, by those who possess a spiritual conjugial love. For there is a natural conjugial love, a spiritual conjugial love, and a celestial conjugial love. We will speak of the natural and celestial kinds, and of the jealousness characteristic of them, in the two discussions which follow.