Good and truth are most universal, thence they are in each and all things in heaven and in earth (306-311 [CL 84-86]).

Good by itself alone is not given, nor truth by itself alone; but where good is, there is truth; and the converse: wherefore the one without the other is but a thing of reasoning (312-314 [CL 87]).

There is truth of good and good of truth, which are two distinct things because one is from the other (315-319 [CL 88, 89]). Truth of good is masculine, and good of truth is feminine (319 [CL 90, 91]).

Between these two is the marriage which is properly meant by the marriage of good and truth (324, 325 [CL 93, 100]).

Between the two there is love, which is called conjugial love (326-329 [CL 65, 92, 93]).

In that marriage there are reciprocal action and reaction, from which one becomes the other's; whence there is mutuality (341 [CL 293]). (See SPIRITUAL MARRIAGE, MARRIAGE, CONJUGIAL LOVE, SEX.)