Conjugial Love (Chadwick) n. 95

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95. (vii) Conjugial love belongs to the inward or spiritual person, and consequently is peculiar to human beings.

Conjugial love belongs to the inward or spiritual person, because the more intelligent and wise, the more inward and spiritual he becomes. The more perfect too the form of his mind becomes, and this is the form which receives conjugial love. For in this it perceives and feels spiritual pleasure, which is what makes one inwardly blessed, and is the source of natural pleasure, which derives its soul, life and essence from it.


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