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The Delights of Wisdom

 

PERTAINING TO

 

CONJUGIAL LOVE

 
 

TO WHICH IS ADDED

The Pleasures of Insanity

PERTAINING TO

SCORTATORY LOVE

 

BY

EMANUEL SWEDENBORG
A Swede

 

Being a translation of his work

"Delitiæ Sapientiæ de Amore Conjugiali; post quas sequuntur Voluptates Insaniæ
de Amore Scortatorio" (Amstelodami 1768)

 

NEW YORK

AMERICAN SWEDENBORG PRINTING AND PUBLISHING
SOCIETY

20 COOPER UNION

1892

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Published by The Amecican Swedenborg Printing and Publishing Society, organized for the purpose of Stereotyping, Printing, and Publishing Uniform Editions of the Theological Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg, and incorporated in the State of New York, a. d. 1850.

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CONTENTS

 

CONJUGIAL LOVE AND ITS CHASTE DELIGHTS.

Preliminary Relations Respecting the Joys of Heaven and Nuptials There
On Marriages in Heaven
On the State of Married Partners After Death
On Love Truly Conjugial
On the Origin of Conjugial Love as Grounded in the Marriage of Good and Truth
On the Marriage of the Lord and the Church, and Its Correspondence
On the Chaste Principle and the Non-Chaste
On the Conjunction of Souls and Minds by Marriage, which is meant by the Lord’s words,—They are no longer two, but one flesh.
On the Change of the State of Life Which Takes Place with Men and Women by Marriage
Universals Respecting Marriages
On the Causes of Coldness, Separation, and Divorce in Marriages
On the Causes of Apparent Love, Friendship, and Favor in Marriages
On Betrothings and Nuptials
On Repeated Marriages
On Polygamy
On Jealousy
On the Conjunction of Conjugial Love with the Love of Infants

ADULTEROUS LOVE AND ITS SINFUL PLEASURES.

On the Opposition of Adulterous Love and Conjugial Love
On Fornication
On Concubinage
On Adulteries and Their Genera and Degrees
On the Lust of Defloration
On the Lust of Varieties
On the Lust of Violation
On the Lust of Seducing Innocencies
On the Correspondence of Adulteries with the Violation of Spiritual Marriage
On the Imputation of Each Love, Adulterous and Conjugial
Index

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