Conjugial Love (Chadwick) n. 205

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205. I have been told by angels that those who lived in the most ancient times live today in the heavens, arranged by households, by families and by tribes, in much the same way as they had lived on earth, with hardly any missing from their households. This, they said, is because they enjoyed truly conjugial love. From this their children inherited the inclination towards the principle of the marriage of good and truth; and they were through their upbringing easily started towards accepting it more and more inwardly by their parents, and then as if by themselves; and when they became able to use their own judgment, they were introduced into it by the Lord.


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