7. MEMORABILIA.
Consorts from the third heaven were seen, borne in a chariot, and descending; described as to face and as to garments; having spoken with me, they let down a parchment on which were inscribed arcana of conjugial love (1, p. 16 [Conjugial Love 42, 43]).
The correspondence of conjugial love with fire, with the colors of the rainbow, with fragrant things, with rose-gardens and arbors, with winged things and animals, represented by angels (29, p. 42 1/2, 43 [Conjugial Love 76, 293, 294, 316]).
The nuptial garden which appears round about the houses while nuptials are celebrated; and the Divine Providence which encompasses marriages: from the discourse of a certain wise person in the garden (76, p. 49 [Conjugial Love 316]).
There were seen consorts from the third heaven; at first appearing as infants decked with garlands, afterwards of their proper stature. They had lived a thousand years in conjugial blessedness. Conjugial love, as it is in that heaven, is described; it is from wisdom and from the love of wisdom, and it is with those who do uses, etc. (146, p. 50 [Conjugial Love 137]).
Something about the magnificent and splendid things in heaven: next it is told whence angels have perpetual potency: confirmed by reasons, given by an angel (222, p. 46 1/2, 47 [Conjugial Love 12-20, 355, 356]).
A paper on which was inscribed, "The marriage of Good and Truth;" - how it appeared on the way, when let down to the earth by an angel, and how it was changed: also many things about that marriage, in the whole heaven and in the church (301, p. 46 [Conjugial Love 115]).
Adulterers seen like satyrs, in the company of harlots, in a wood and in a cavern there; afterwards in a house: where they were speaking heinous things about marriages, nature, and religion (407 [Conjugial Love 521]).
[2] A discussion concerning God and nature, - (1) Whether nature is of life, or life of nature: (2) Whether the center is of the expanse, or the expanse of the center: (3) Concerning the center and the expanse of nature and of life (568, p. 79 [Conjugial Love 380]).
Concerning a certain garden, in which there were several married pairs; also conversations there respecting love, wisdom and use; that the three proceed from the Lord, and that hence are conjugial love and its ineffable delights: much concerning these and their origin (763, p. 41 [Conjugial Love 183].)
Concerning a young man who boasted of his whoredom; he was conducted into heaven, and there he was held by turns in his externals and his internals: while in externals he saw heavenly things, but while in internals he saw the opposite (concerning which see 852, p. 77 [Conjugial Love 477]).
While following the light, I came to the Temple of Wisdom, around which there dwelt those who were wise; there I conversed with them concerning the cause of the beauty of the female sex (1018, p. 45 [Conjugial Love 56]).
Of the new things revealed by the Lord: as concerning the spiritual sense of the Word, and concerning correspondences, concerning heaven and hell, concerning the spiritual world and the sun there; also concerning conjugial love, as being according to religion: but that these things are not received in the world was testified by experience (1108, p. 48, also 50 [Conjugial Love 532-534]).
[3] Discussions, by the wise, of the following subjects:--(1) What the image of God is, and what the likeness of God: (2) That man is not born into love and into knowledge, as the beasts are, but only into capacity to know and inclination to love: (3) Concerning the tree of life, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (1193, p. 60 [Conjugial Love 132-136]).
Concerning Athenaeum, Parnassium, and Heliconeum: conversation with ancient wise men, and with two newly come from the earth, about men who had been found in the forest; also concerning things that were said in favor of nature and the life of beasts, compared with the life of men (1251, p. 64 [Conjugial Love 151[*]- 154[*]).
Again three new-comers were conducted to Athenaeum, - a priest, a politician, and a philosopher; who reported, as news from the earth, that a certain person had written various things about the life of men after death and about the spiritual world; and they told how these subjects were discussed on earth (1286, p. 66 [Conjugial Love 182]).
A tumult against three priests, who preached that with adulterers there is no acknowledgment of God, and consequently that they have not heaven; also what happened to them, out of heaven (1300, p. 75 [Conjugial Love 500]).
Concerning a novitiate who meditated about heaven and hell, and who was told to make inquiry, and to learn what delight is: he was led to three assemblies; in which he learned what the delight of heaven is, and what the delight of hell (1344, p. 54 [Conjugial Love 461]).
A disputation by spirits concerning God and concerning nature, in favor of nature from devils, and in favor of God from angels: also that man may confirm himself in favor of God, more than for nature, from the things that he can see: those things are adduced which were written on this subject in Angelic Wisdom concerning Divine Love and Divine Wisdom (1458, p. 62 [Conjugial Love 415-422]).
[4] A melody was heard concerning chaste love of the sex; and that they have that love who are in love truly conjugial, and thence in fullest potency (1585, p. 64 [Conjugial Love 55]).
Various reasonings about the soul; and finally that the soul is the man living after death, because it is the form of all the affections of love, and of all the perceptions of wisdom, and is their receptacle (1641, p. 70 [Conjugial Love 315]).
After this there was a conversation about the spiritual and the natural; and it was shown what differences there are between them, as to languages, writings, and thoughts: the conversation was renewed when looking at a moth, and observing that when divided it was more and more multiform, and not more and more simple (1699, p. 72 [Conjugial Love 326-329]).
Wise men were called together from nine kingdoms of Europe, to give their opinion concerning the origin of conjugial love, and concerning its virtue and potency; and at last the prize, which was a turban, was given to an African (1718, p. 30 [Conjugial Love 103-114]).
[5] Three orators from France discoursed concerning the origin of the beauty of the female sex; one said that it was from love, another from wisdom, and the third from the conjunction of love and wisdom (1737, p. 57 1/2, 58 [Conjugial Love 381-384]).
Concerning two angels, who had died in infancy, and who could not perceive what whoredom is, because it is not from creation. Conversation about it, and concerning evil; how evil exists, when from creation there is only good (1738, p. 86 [Conjugial Love 444]).
Exclamations were heard, "O how just," "O how learned," "O how wise;" and it is here said of those called just, that they were those who gave judgment from friendship, and were able skillfully to pervert all things; they had no understanding of things that were just: their assemblage is described (1791, p. 37 [Conjugial Love 231]).
[6] Preliminary statements concerning the joys of heaven, and concerning nuptials there (1826-1848, p. 1 [Conjugial Love 1-25]).
Concerning the love of dominion from the love of self; with politicians, that they wish to be kings and emperors; with canons, that they wish to be gods. Concerning devils that were seen, who had been in such love; also concerning two popes (1873, p. 56 [Conjugial Love 261-266]).
Again in Athenaeum; where three new-comers were heard to say that they had believed that in heaven there were no administrations and works, because there was eternal rest; and it was shown that doing uses is that rest; there was also mention of books and writings; and it was said that there are these also in heaven, for all substantial things which are called spiritual are there (1909, p. 68 [Conjugial Love 207]).
Of those concerning whom was the exclamation, "O how learned:" they were those who go no farther in their reasoning than to question whether a thing is so, and who are called reasoners (1948, p. 38 [Conjugial Love 232]).
Of those concerning whom was the exclamation, "O how wise:" they were those who were able to make whatever they pleased to be true, and were called confirmers (1949, p. 30 [Conjugial Love 233]).
[7] A conversation of angels with three novitiates concerning nuptials in heaven (various things, 2001, p. 17 [Conjugial Love 44]).
Golden rain was seen: I was conducted to a hall where husbands and wives instructed me concerning conjugial love; also concerning its delights, from the wives there (2002, p. 34 [Conjugial Love 155 [*]).
Conversation with those who lived in the golden age, concerning conjugial love, and in regard to their marriages (2003, p. 20, seq. [Conjugial Love 75]).
Conversation with those who lived in the silver age; this, too, concerning conjugial love (2004 [Conjugial Love 76]).
Conversation with those who lived in the copper age (2005 [Conjugial Love 77]).
Conversation with those who lived in the iron age; they were polygamists (2006 [Conjugial Love 78]).
Conversation with those who lived after those four ages; they were whoremongers and adulterers (2034 [Conjugial Love 79, 80]).
Of the conversion of this age into a golden age by the Lord; concerning which the angels glorified the Lord (2035 [Conjugial Love 81]).
[8] Concerning one's own intelligence or prudence, that it, is not [anything] (2051, p. 59 [Conjugial Love 353]).
Whether conjugial love and love of [their own] beauty coexist in women; and whether conjugial love and the love of their own intelligence coexist in men (2052, p. 52 [Conjugial Love 330, 331]).
Again the golden rain was seen, and some arcana respecting conjugial love in women were disclosed (2053, p. 35 [Conjugial Love 208]).
Spiritual coldness has its seat in the highest region (2054, p. 51 [Conjugial Love 270]).
Concerning those who are in the love of the world (p. 90 [(Conjugial Love 267-269]).
The delights of conjugial love are delights of wisdom (p. 91 [Conjugial Love 293]).
And the pleasures of scortatory love are pleasures of insanity (p. 92 [Conjugial Love 294]).
([End Note:] Concerning adulterers as satyrs: this has not been written out, see before 407, - and let it be allowed.)
