are for his salvation; and if man receives and does the things in his
table, reciprocal conjunction is effected, and the Lord's words to the
lawyer will have come to pass, "This do, and thou shalt live."

--_True Christian Religion, n._ 287

MARRIAGE

"Jesus said: 'Have ye not read that He who made them at the
beginning made them male and female, and said, For this
cause shall a man leave father and mother and shall cleave
to his wife; and they twain shall be one flesh. Wherefore
they are no more twain but one flesh. What, therefore, God
hath joined together, let not man put asunder.'"

--_Matthew_, XIX, 4, 5

A PRICELESS JEWEL

The conjugial inclination of one man to one wife is the jewel of human
life and the depository of the Christian religion.

--_Conjugial Love, n._ 457

THE PROGRESSIVE CHASTITY OF MARRIAGE

The love in marriage is from its origin and correspondence heavenly,
spiritual, holy, pure and clean above every other love which the
angels of heaven or men of the Church have from the Lord. It is such
from its origin, which is the marriage of good and truth; also from
its correspondence with the marriage of the Lord and the Church. If it
be received from its Author, Who is the Lord, sanctity from Him
follows, which continually cleanses and purifies it. Then, if there be
in man's will a longing for it and an effort toward it, this love
becomes continually cleaner and purer. All who are in such love shun
extra-conjugial loves (which are conjunctions with others than their
own conjugial partner) as they would shun the loss of the soul and the
lakes of hell; and in the measure that married partners shun such
conjunctions, even in respect of libidinous desires of the will and
any intentions from them, so far love truly conjugial is purified with
them, and becomes successively spiritual.

--_Conjugial Love, nn._ 64, 71

THE HEIGHT OF SERVICE

Conjugial love is the love at the foundation of all good loves, and is
inscribed on all the least life of the human being. Its delights
therefore surpass the delights of all other loves, and it also gives
delight to other loves, in the measure of its presence and union with
them. Into it all delights from first to last are collected, on
account of the superior excellence of its use, which is the
propagation of the human race, and from it of an angelic heaven. As
this service was