love, and thus an
image and likeness of God. Spiritual love, which is a love for truth,
is an image of God; and celestial love, which is a love for good, is a
likeness of God. All angels in the third heaven are likenesses of God;
and all angels in the second heaven are images of God. Man can become
the love which is an image or likeness of God only by a marriage of good
and truth; for good and truth inmostly love one another, and ardently
long to be united that they may be one; and for the reason that Divine
good and Divine truth go forth from the Lord united, therefore they must
be united in an angel of heaven and in a man of the church.

This union is by no means possible except by a marriage of two minds
into one, since, as has been said before, man was created to be an
understanding of truth, and thus a truth, and woman was created to be an
affection for good, and thus a good; therefore in them a conjunction of
good and truth is possible. For marriage love which descends from that
conjunction is the veriest medium by which man (homo) becomes the love
that is an image or likeness of God. For the married pair who are in
conjugal love from the Lord love one another mutually and reciprocally
from the heart, thus from inmosts; and therefore although apparently two
they are actually one, two in respect to their bodies, but one in
respect to life.

This may be compared to the eyes, which are two as organs but one in
respect to the sight; also to the ears, which are two as organs but one
in respect to hearing; so, too, the arms and the feet are two as members
but one in respect to use, the arms one in respect to action, and the
feet one in respect to walking. So with the other pairs with man. All
these have reference to good and truth, the organ or member on the right
to good, and that on the left to truth. It is the same with a husband
and wife between whom there is a true marriage love; they are two in
respect to their bodies but one in respect to life; consequently in
heaven the married pair are not called two angels but one. All this
makes clear that through marriage man becomes a form of love, and thus a
form of heaven, which is an image and likeness of God.

Man is born into a love of evil and falsity, which love is the love of
adultery; and this love cannot be turned about and changed into
spiritual love, which is an image of God, and still less into celestial
love, which is a likeness of God, except by a