marriage of good and truth the angels
of the three heavens have all their intelligence and wisdom; for
intelligence and wisdom are nothing else than the reception of light and
heat from the Lord as a sun, that is, the reception of Divine truth
joined to Divine good, and of Divine good joined to Divine truth; thus
it is a marriage of good and truth from the Lord.

That it is such has been made clearly evident by angels in the heavens.
When these are separated from their consorts they are indeed in
intelligence, but not in wisdom; but when they are with their consorts
they are also in wisdom; and what seemed wonderful, as they turn the
face to their consort they are to the same extent in a state of wisdom;
for the conjunction of truth and good is effected in the spiritual world
by looking; and the wife there is good and the husband truth; therefore
as truth turns itself to good so truth becomes living. By intelligence
and wisdom ingenuity in reasoning about truths and goods is not meant,
but a capacity to see and understand truths and goods, and this capacity
man has from the Lord. (A.E., n. 998.)

True marriage love is a source of power and protection against the
hells, as it is against the evils and falsities that ascend from the
hells, and for the reason that through marriage love man has conjunction
with the Lord, and the Lord alone has power over all the hells; also
because through marriage love man has heaven and the church;
consequently as the Lord unceasingly protects heaven and the church from
the evils and falsities that rise up from the hells, so He protects all
who are in true marriage love, because such and no others have heaven
and the church. For heaven and the church are a marriage of good and
truth, from which is marriage love, as has been said above. And this is
why through marriage love man has peace, which is inmost joy of heart
from a complete safety from the hells and a protection from infestations
of the evil and falsity therefrom. (A.E., n. 999.)

Those who are in true marriage love, when after death they become
angels, return to their early manhood and to youth, the males, however
spent with age, becoming young men, and the wives, however spent with
age, becoming maidens. Each of the married pair returns to the flower
and joy of the age when marriage love begins to exalt the life with new
delights, and to inspire playfulness for the sake of prolification. The
man who while he lived in th