Marriage Index 2 (Whitehead) n. 25

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25. MARRIAGE (Conjugium).

Something respecting the conjunction of female and male from creation (6, 7, 26, 522). (See FEMALE AND MALE.)

The conjugial of feminine and masculine is implanted from creation in minds, and also in the vegetative and in the animal soul; otherwise there would cease to be a world (15, 16). (See WOMAN.) There is similitude between consorts (concerning this, 20 [CL 227, 228]).

It is of the Lord's providence that like should be conjoined with like (21 [CL 229]).

There are marriages in the heavens (illustrated, 22, 24 [CL 27-41]).

There are marriages after death (from personal observation, 25 [CL 45-54]).

From marriages in the heavens are born spiritual offspring only, which belong to good and truth (illustrated, 26 [CL 51, 52]).

Two consorts are not two angels, but are one angel (illustrated, 26, 28 [CL 178]).

How the wisdom of the husband grows in his wife's presence (27). That two consorts are one man is illustrated by the various things in man which are two and still make one (44 [CL 316]). This shown from the Word, and illustrated (45).

The reciprocal union of love and wisdom with male and female together, is an image of God and a likeness of God (46). (See IMAGE.)

The quality of the masculine and the feminine which become one by marriage (53-55 [CL 88, 89]). (See WOMAN.)

Something respecting the marriage of the Lord and the church (69, 70).

Neither with the male alone nor with the female alone is there full conjunction with the Lord; but with both together, through love truly conjugial (illustrated, 74).

The Lord's providence is peculiarly in marriages (illustrated in various ways, Memorabilia 76 [CL 229]).

The conjugial is with man in the whole and in every part, but of one kind in the male and of another in the female: that there are conjunctions, illustrated by the marriage of will and understanding, and by the many pairs in the body (Memorabilia 76 [CL 316]).

The conjugial is also in the most minute things that have their birth from the earth (76e).

The delights of conjugial love (77-146 [CL 68, 69]).


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