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- Conjugial Love (Married Love, Marital Love, Conjugal Love)
- Conjugial love and the love of uses
- Diagrams illustrating conjunction between husband and wife on different levels
- Divorce
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- How the man regards his wife when he doesn't come into the love of growing wise
- If one is not married, on what he/she is spiritually dependent
- Inmost becoming a form of the true, being in the affection of the true (of her husband or/and of the Church) as the primary concern for a woman, and not the things of love and of life
- Opposites to Conjugial Love
- Personal love issues
- Relation of intellectual and voluntary in the marriage of man and woman in the church
- Relation of man and woman in the church
- Sexual intercourse
- Sirens
- The love of growing wise as the primary end for a man, and not the rational understanding of the Word, Doctrine and intellectual things in general
- Turning away from charity alone to the internal true
- Turning away from faith alone to the love of growing wise
- What to do, when one partner is spiritual, and the other natural
- When the man regards the true of the understanding as the essential, and the woman regards the things of what she calls life and love, as the essential, conjugial love is not possible
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- Doctrine which is Spiritual out of Celestial origin
- Innocence and the doctrine
- Love for the Word and the Doctrine, true and false
- misuse and abuse of the Doctrine
- One man principle (see also Conjugial Love)
- Relation of the internal and external sense in the Doctrine
- Taking apparent goods and truths, in which lie interior evils, as genuine goods and truths
- Those who are in the interior things of the Word and Doctrine and do not humble themselves and look to the Lord
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- Cunning of the love of self hiding man's internal evils from the conscious mind
- Deceitful weakening of the force of the truth and its judgment
- Internal deceit together with outward honesty, sincerity and straightforwardness
- The internal cause of cunning and deceit
- When the friendliness and tolerance is deceptive
- Despisal of others in comparison with oneself
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- Essence of the love of self, longing to be loved by others with the unregenerate man
- Humbled love of self
- Intermediate/mediate love of self
- Love of self in relation to those in the Church and to those outside of the church
- Manifestation of the evil of the love of self
- Three kinds of the love of self
- Turning things of the Word, the Doctrine, and the Church to favor one's love of self
- Loves that must be changed, ordered, and properly subordinated
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- murder
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- Claiming what is spiritual for one's rational
- Evil and false claiming to themselves what is the Lord's with a man (judas)
- More interior spiritual theft
- Robbing the Lord of His Word in one's mind
- Stealing of goods and truths, with a man and with a woman
- Stealing the things from the Word and the Doctrine
- Theft of using the rational to confirm goods and truths as one's own
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