Conjugial Love (Chadwick) n. 201

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201. (xvi) Thus by stages their forms are from within made more perfect and noble.

The most perfect and noblest human form is when two forms are made by marriage into one, so when the flesh of two becomes one, as they were created to be. The man's mind is then lifted into a higher light, and the wife's mind into a higher heat; and then they germinate, flower and bear fruit, like trees in spring (see 188, 189 above). It will now be seen in the next section that the ennobling of this form leads to the birth of noble fruit, spiritual in the heavens, natural on earth.


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