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new church life: march / april 2014 the sex, and there is conjugial love.” (92) 8. “The male and female were created to be the very form of the marriage of good and truth.” (100) 9. “Two married partners are that form in their inmosts, and hence in the things that follow therefrom, according as the interiors of their mind are opened.” (101) 10. “From the marriage of good and truth which proceeds and flows in from the Lord, man receives truth, and to this the Lord conjoins good; and that thus the church is formed with man by the Lord.” (122) 11. “The Word is the medium of conjunction; because it is from the Lord, and thus is the Lord.” (128) 12. “The church is from the Lord, and is with those who come to Him, and live according to His commandments.” (129) 13. “Chastity arises through the total renunciation of scortations from religion.” (147) 14. “There is inherent in each sex, by creation, the faculty and the inclination whereby they are able and desire to be conjoined as one.” (157) 15. “The will of the wife conjoins itself with the understanding of the man; and hence the understanding of the man with the will of the wife.” (159) 16. “Conjunction is inspired into the man by the wife according to her love; and is received by the man according to his wisdom.” (161) 17. “Conjunction of the wife with the rational wisdom of the husband is effected from within; but with his moral wisdom from without.” (163) 18. “For the sake of this conjunction as an end, to the wife is given a perception of the husband’s affections, and also consummate prudence in moderating them.” (166) 19. “This perception is the wisdom of the wife; it cannot be with the man; and the rational wisdom of the man cannot be with the wife.” (168) 20. “There are duties proper to the man, and duties proper to the wife; and the wife cannot enter into the duties proper to the man, nor the m