Before some knowledge on this subject is acquired, we will only present to the intellectual view, as in a shade, these few particulars: conjugial love corresponds to the affection of genuine truth, its chastity, purity, and sanctity; Semination corresponds to the potency of truth; prolification corresponds to the propagation of truth; and the love of infants corresponds to the defence of truth and good.
"The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love"
Emanuel Swedenborg
The ancients knew that everything which was done in the body is from a spiritual origin: as that from the will, which in itself is spiritual, actions flow; that from the thought, which also is spiritual, speech flows; also that natural sight is grounded in spiritual sight, which is that of the understanding; natural hearing in spiritual hearing, which is attention of the understanding and at the same time accommodation of the will; and natural smelling in spiritual smelling, which is perception; and so forth: in like manner they saw that Semination with men is from a spiritual origin.
"The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love"
Emanuel Swedenborg
126. But there is a correspondence with conjugial love, Semination, prolification, the love of infants, and similar things which exist in marriages and are derived from them, n.
"The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love"
Emanuel Swedenborg