The love of use, and a consequent application to it, preserve the powers of the mind, and prevent their dispersion; so that the mind is guarded against wandering and dissipation, and the imbibing of false lusts, which with their enchanting delusions flow in from the body and the world through the senses, whereby the truths of religion and morality, with all that is good in either, become the sport of every wind; but the application of the mind to use binds and unites those truths, and disposes the mind to become a form Receptible of the wisdom thence derived; and in this case it extirpates the idle sports and pastimes of falsity and vanity, banishing them from its centre towards the circumference.
"The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love"
Emanuel Swedenborg
2. Because they were also united as to their bodies by the receptions of the propagation of the soul of the husband by the wife, and thus by the insertion of his life into hers, whereby a maiden becomes a wife; and on the other hand by the reception of the conjugial love of the wife by the husband, which disposes the interiors of his mind, and at the same time the interiors and exteriors of his body, into a state Receptible of love and perceptible of wisdom, which makes him from a youth become a husband; see above, n.
"The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love"
Emanuel Swedenborg
Man is Receptible of the Lord's presence and of conjunction with him.
"The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love"
Emanuel Swedenborg