e world had shunned adulteries as sins, and
who has been inaugurated by the Lord into marriage love, comes into this
state first outwardly and afterward more and more interiorly to
eternity.

As such continue to grow young more interiorly it follows that true
marriage love continually increases and enters into its charms and
satisfactions, which have been provided for it from the creation of the
world, and which are the charms and satisfactions of the inmost heaven,
arising from the love of the Lord for heaven and the church, and thus
from the love of good for truth and truth for good, which loves are the
source of every joy in the heavens. Man thus grows young in heaven
because he then enters into the marriage of good and truth; and in good
there is the conatus [instinct] to love truth continually, and in truth
there is the conatus [instinct] to love good continually; and then the
wife is good in form and the husband is truth in form. From that conatus
[instinct] man puts off all the austerity, sadness, and dryness of old
age, and puts on the liveliness, gladness, and freshness of youth, from
which the conatus [instinct] becomes living and a joy.

I have been told from heaven that such then have the life of love, which
cannot otherwise be described than as the life of joy itself. That the
man who lives in true marriage love in the world comes after death into
the heavenly marriage, which is the marriage of good and truth springing
from the marriage of the Lord with the church, is clearly evident from
this, that from the marriages in the heavens, although the married pair
have consociations there like those on the earth, children are not
born, but instead of children goods and truths, and thus wisdom, as has
been said above. And this is why births, nativities, and generations
mean in the Word, in its spiritual sense, spiritual births, nativities,
and generations, and sons and daughters mean the truths and goods
of the church, and other like things are meant by daughters-in-law,
mothers-in-law, and fathers-in-law. This also makes clear that
marriages on the earth correspond to marriages in the heavens; and that
after death man comes into the correspondence, that is, comes from
natural bodily marriage into spiritual heavenly marriage, which is
heaven itself and the joy of heaven. (A.E., n. 1000.)

From marriage love angels have all their beauty; thus each angel has
beauty in the measure of that love. For all angels