Bible Correspondences in Swedenborg's Writings

PSYCHOBIOLOGY OF MARRIAGE:
CONJUGIAL LOVE (Genesis 1 &2)

ADAM/EVE = (MAN/WOMAN) =	HUSBAND/WIFE
RIB =	man's own wisdom from natural truth
BUILT RIB INTO A WOMAN =	when woman becomes wife, the husband's own wisdom from natural truth is "transcribed into" her, through which she senses his affections of the will, which she "moderates" unbeknownst to him, and "appropriates" to herself through loving it, and which them is in her as an "image" of his inmost.

Stage 1:	MAN BOY =	"receptable" (organ) for wisdom , from influx (masculine mind)
	WOMAN GIRL =	"receptacle" (organ) for love of that wisdom, from influx (feminine mind)
Stage 2:	(HUSBAND + WIFE)	= TWAIN SHALL BE ONE FLESH = act, think, feel as one person = CONJUGIAL LOVE = fruition of all inner potentials to eternity

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Stage 1
BOY/MAN	GIRL/WOMAN

	BIII	CIII	AIII		CIII
AII	BII	CII	AII	BII	CII
AI	BI	CI	AI	BI	CI
Marriage

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Stage 2
HUSBAND	WIFE
*A'III	BIII	*CIII	AIII	*B'III	*C'III
AII	BII	CII	AII	BII	CII
AI	BI	CI	AI	BI	CI

Figure 1. The Psychobiology of Sex and Marriage or DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY

*A'III	= husband appropriates wife's love of husband
*B'III	= wife appropriates husband's wisdom
*C'III	= fruition of higher inner potentials

MARRIAGE OF PSYCHIATRY

(HEALING OF THE SOUL & MIND)

1) NOT GOOD FOR MAN TOBE ALONE

= not good for man to love his own wisdom hence himself

2) THEREFORE --- WIFE FROM HIS RIB WHILE HE'S ASLEEP

= he, as husband, can now love his wife's love of his wisdom as he appropriates her love of his wisdom through he cannot discern this since she hides it

3) Instead he thinks he woos her and that his love is in her while in fact her love is in him and she manages to have him believe she is obedient and receptive when yet she is active and volitional.

4) From this exchange of appropriation the two become one and come into all the potentials not otherwise avaiable ("conjugial love" and its "heavenly felicity").

Correspondences from Genesis

MAN LEAVING FATHER AND MOTHER	= stop loving his own loves (father = will) and his own wisdom (mother = understanding), born evil inclination.
CLEAVING TO HIS WIFE	= devotion to her = loving her = receiving her love of him (his affections and wisdom), which love she has from birth/influx.
MARRIAGE	= spiritual reunion of man and woman's interiors = becoming one flesh or one person or one angel.

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The Lord's Kingdom
	LOVE FIRST ENDS	WISDOM CAUSES	USES ULTIMATES
DIVINE CELESTRIAL GOOD VS. INFERNAL EVIL	FACE GOLDBREAD FAT BEASTS LAMBS	RED PURPLE BLACK LAMPSTAND	HEAD WHITE WOOL	HIGHEST INTERIOR
DIVINE SPIRITUAL TRUTH VS. FALSITY	SHEEP FISH/BIRDS SILVER	WATER WINE SCARLET BROWN EYES	SNOW LINEN HAIR BEARD RAIMENT GARMENT BREAST	MIDDLE INTERNAL
NATURAL DEGREES OF THE DIVINE	FIG OIL SERPENT BURNISHED BRASS COPPER SIDES	BLUE/GREEN YELLOW TREE IRON LEGS VESSELS	LEAF STAR WATERS DUST/CLAY FEET/SHOE FOOTSTOOLWORLD CLOUD	LOWEST EXTERNAL
	INMOST	INTERNAL	OUTMOST EXTERNAL

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INFLUX OF DIVINE LOVE AND WISDOM
C	B	A	A	B	C
LEADERSHIP IN PUBLIC LIFE CONJUGIAL LIFE	WISDOM IN MATURE LIFE & OLD AGE	LOVE OF BECOMING WISE FROM CONJUGIAL LOVE	LOVE OF WISDOM IN MAN	FEMININE WISDOM	LEADERSHIP IN FAMILY LIFE CONJUGIAL LIFE
OCCUPATIONS CIVICS CHASTE LOVE OF SEX SEMEN	INTELLIGENCE & UNDERSTOOD IN YOUNG ADULTHOOD	LOVE OF UNDERSTANDING FROM WOMAN'S LOVE OF UNDERSTANDING IN MAN	LOVE OF UNDERSTANDING IN MAN	FEMININE UNDERSTANDING	DOMESTIC ACTIVITIES CHILDREN CHASTE OF LOVE SEX PREGNANCY
OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES ROUGH BODY NATURAL LOVE OF SEX	KNOWLEDGE & ACQUISITION OF IT IN CHILDHOOD	LOVE OF KNOWLEDGE FROM WOMAN'S LOVE OF KNOWLEDGE IN MAN	LOVE OF KNOWLEDGE IN MAN	FEMININE KNOWLEDGE	DELICATE HANDIWORKS SOFT BODY NATURAL LOVE OF SEX
LOVE OF SEX AND CONJUGIAL LOVE implanted at birth to eternity

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III PERCEPTION (WILL & UNDERSTANDING ONE) CELESTIAL GOLDEN AGE E
DARKENESS Se/C SENSUAL IRON AGE N
S II SPIRITUAL SILVER AGE II CONSCIENCE (WILL & UNDERSTANDING Separate)	W BRASS AGE NATURAL I MORALITY
counterclockwise = HISTORICAL DECLINE OF AGES
clockwise = INDIVIDUAL PROCESS OF REGENERATION

THE PSYCHOBIOLOGY OF REGENERATION TAXONONY OF LOVES
DIVINE INFLUX OF LOVE/GOOD & WISDOM/TRUTH		The Lord (Love) & the Church (Wisdom) = coroespondence of conjugial love
INDIVIDUAL RECEPTION	according to one's free obedience to the commandments from a desire to be good & from love of God	= marriage of charity & faith = the church with each individual

HELL		HEAVEN
C-	B-	A-	A+	B+	C+
DEFORMATIONS & EVILS & DEGENERATION	SPIRITUAL INSANITY ATHEISM IDOL WORSHIP	SCORTATORY LOVE (Love of many of III* the see)	CONJUGIAL LOVE (love of one of the see only)	WISDOM & INTELLECT	USES-AS-ENDS & BEAUTY & HARMONY & PROGRESS
SOCIETAL STRIF IMMORALITY IDLENESS INJUSTICE	IRRATIONALITY & VASTATION (FALSEHOODS)	LOVE OF DECEPTION, CUNNING II*	LOVE OF WISDOM, FAITH & TRUTH & SINCERITY & FAIRNESS	RATIONALITY & UNDERSTANDING OF TRUTHS	CIVICS, MANAGEMENT, MORALITY, SOCIETAL PEACE JUSTICE SPIRIT WORLD
DELIGHTS OF THE SENSES THAT SATIATE & FADE WITH TIME	FANTASY LIFE MAGIC SUPERSTITION OBSCENITY	LOVE OF GAIN & SELF ABOVE OTHER LOVES I*	LOVE OF KNOWLEDGE CURIOSITY LOVE OF NEIGHBOR EQUAL WITH SELF	NATURAL HISTORY SCIENCE ART DRAMA POETRY	SUPER KEEN DELIGHTS OF THE SENSES THAT REMAIN FRESH FOREVER EARTH

*III II I = mature organism
I II III = order of development

SELF-ANALYSIS TRAINING or Jacob's Ladder

(H. Odhner, page 84)

(Hagar Ishmael Issac = the evolution of the Rational -- see AC)	(= Jacob's Ladder or the bridge between Heaven and Earth in us)
= love of truth rules over love of sensual	EXPLORING ONE'S INTERIORS RATIONAL REFLECTION ISHMAEL WITHIN US (Prior to TRUTH joining to GOOD) FIRST RATIONAL (WILD-ASS) PRIOR TO SYMPATHY & LOVE OF NEIGHBOR PRIOR TO ISAAC WHO IS PEACE WITHIN US
SAT: Self-Analysis Training
CORRESPONDENCE ELEVATION & FULL MATURITY OBJECTIVES & SYMPTOMS in SAT	= helping the first rational or Ishmael to transform into the second rational or Isaac = conjoining truth to good = adding sympathy to understanding and letting it rule = avoiding the abuses of the rational

RELIGIOUS BEHAVIORISM: RATIONAL PSYCHOTHERAPY
SCRIPT ANALYSIS AND THE RATIONAL:(from imagination to truth to goodness -- the epic history of everyman's autobiography)

a) ->The Rational {determines
valuates
confirms} {experiential force
significance
cathexis}

********(e.g. chooses which child experiences are elevated to importance vs. relegated to oblivion and inaction -- see Freud; and Tomkins on "scripting")

b) -> which is therefore to eternity

(see "confirmed character" when inherited evil is turned into acquired evil)

(see GENETIC CULTURE/LIFESTYLE/ETHNICITY)

c) -> through the use the person makes of it

(see: TEN COMMANDMENTS/NEW WILL/REFORMATION)

********(e.g. first vs. second rational: truth vs. charity)
- confirmingfalsehoods that serve cupidities (e.g. Ellis andPerls and EST VS. Mourer and Jung and Sw.)
- disconfirming falsehoods through reception of revealed truths and resultant self-control of the inherited sensual will or inclinations
- curbing one's evils (see TWO-EDGED SWORD)
- asserting to one's cupidities and insanities closes or degenerates the rational so that person is deprived of the ability for judgment ("sensual" and "corporal" man)

d) -> Misuse (assentin to one's cupidities andconfirming falsehoods that serve them) of the rational deprives the perfson of the ability to reason with abstract thoughts ("materialism", "humanism", "relativism", "mihilism", "psychopathic", "atheism")

R.D.
DIGMAN

(correlate Abstract Resonaing scores with Moral Behaviors and/or Moral Intellignence and/or Lifestyle Index)(see: RECIDIVISM/DECLINE IN SCAT/PSYCHOTHERAPY/MATERIALISM)
(evil-people-can't-reason-hypothesis)

e) -> deceit and profanation being the two worst misuses that kill remains (e.g. fantasies taken for realities;