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WorkEmanuel Swedenborg

Conjugial Love [De Amore Conjugiali]; Heaven and Hell [De Caelo et de Inferno] (inferred)

Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772)

InferredFuller attributes both passages explicitly to 'Swedenborg.' The statement 'There only are spiritually married who are naturally regenerated' is characteristic of Swedenborg's Conjugial Love (De Amore Conjugiali, 1768), his principal work on the spiritual nature of marriage. The second statement about time in heaven is from Heaven and Hell (De Caelo et de Inferno, 1758) or Conjugial Love.

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Notebook 1842

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“There only are spiritually married who / are naturally regenerated Swedenborg / Time in heaven is the intensity with / which an angel loves”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook 1842." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (90); Box 6.

Inferred Fuller attributes both passages explicitly to 'Swedenborg.' The statement 'There only are spiritually married who are naturally regenerated' is characteristic of Swedenborg's Conjugial Love (De Amore Conjugiali, 1768), his principal work on the spiritual nature of marriage. The second statement about time in heaven is from Heaven and Hell (De Caelo et de Inferno, 1758) or Conjugial Love.

Fuller attributes both passages explicitly to 'Swedenborg.' The statement 'There only are spiritually married who are naturally regenerated' is characteristic of Swedenborg's Conjugial Love (De Amore Conjugiali, 1768), his principal work on the spiritual nature of marriage. Fuller records two Swedenborg aphorisms on p. 42, both explicitly attributed 'Swedenborg.' (1) 'There only are spiritually married who are naturally regenerated' — matches the doctrine of Conjugial Love (1768), which holds that genuine marriage corresponds to the spiritual union of regenerated souls.