52. The reason why marriages in the heavens are without Prolification, and that in place thereof there is experienced spiritual Prolification, which is that of love and wisdom, is, because with the inhabitants of the spiritual world, the third principle-the natural, is wanting; and it is this which contains the spiritual principles; and these without that which contains them have no consistence, like the productions of the natural world: moreover spiritual principles, considered in themselves, have relation to love and wisdom; therefore love and wisdom are the births produced from marriages in the heavens.
"The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love"
Emanuel Swedenborg
33. Add to this, that the principle of Prolification is in him, which is derived from the intellect alone; for it is from truth grounded in good in the intellect: that the principle of Prolification is from this source may be seen in the following pages.
"The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love"
Emanuel Swedenborg
He further said, "I will not speak to you of the conjugial love implanted from the creation in males and females, and of their inclination to legitimate conjunction, or of the faculty of Prolification in the males, which makes one with the faculty of multiplying wisdom from the love of truth; and that so far as a man loves wisdom from the love thereof, or truth from good, so far he is in love truly conjugial and in its attendant vigor."
"The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love"
Emanuel Swedenborg
