SPIRITUAL LIFE AND THE WORD OF GOD - { PT. 77 }

{ PT.  77 } - The innocence of marriage love is meant in the Word by the nakedness at which Adam and his wife blushed not; and for the reason that there is nothing of shame, between a married pair, any more than between little children when they are naked together. ( A.E., n. 996 ). Since marriage love in its first essence is love to the Lord from the Lord, and thus is innocence, marriage love is also peace, such as angles in the heavens have. For as innocence is the very being ( esse ) of all good, so peace is the very being ( esse ) of all delights from good, consequently is the very being ( esse ) of all joy between the married pair. As, then, all joy is of love, and marriage love is the fundamental love of all the loves of heaven, so peace itself has its seat chiefly in marriage love. Peace is bliss of heart and soul arising from the conjunction of the Lord with heaven and the church, as well as from conjunction of good and truth, when all conflict and combat of evil and falsity with good and truth has ceased. And as marriage love descends from such conjunction so all the delight of that love descends and derives its essence from heavenly peace. Moreover, this peace shines forth on the heavens as heavenly bliss from the faces of a married pair who are in that love, and who mutually regard each other from the love. But such heavenly bliss, which  in mostly effects the delights of loves, and is called peace, can be granted only to those who can be joined together in mostly. that is, as to their very hearts. ( A.E., n. 997 ). 

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