most legibly imprinted on it? Which looks like the offspring of Divine Wisdom, and which like the work of men's hands? Do not the character and obvious tendency of the New revealings, clearly authenticate their heavenly origin?
XXII.
SEX AND MARRIAGE IN HEAVEN.
AMONG all of Swedenborg's voluminous works, there is not one which proves more conclusively his Divine illumination, than his treatise on Conjugial Love. Had any man written that book without having his mind opened to the light of heaven in an unusual degree, it would have been the miracle of miracles. In no other work ever published can there be found such exalted wisdom touching the character and relation of the sexes. In no other has the subject of marriage been discussed so profoundly, or its true nature and origin been unfolded so clearly, or so just and elevated views of it been presented—views calculated to produce such a deep conviction of the sacredness of this relation. We cannot conceive how a tolerably fair mind can read this work understandingly, without being made purer, wiser and better by it; nay, without being convinced that the truths here unfolded are such as no human mind could ever have reached by its own unaided efforts.
Hitherto the proper relation of the sexes has been but imperfectly understood; and even professing Christians
