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The propagation of the human race, and thence of the angelic heaven, was the chief end of creation. 68. PROPAGATE, or plastic force of vegetables and animals, whence it originated, 138. PROPRIUM, man's, from his birth is essentially evil, 262. These two propriums are deadly evils to man, if they remain with him, 194.
The love of these two propriums is changed into conjugial love, so far as man cleaves to his wife, that is, receives her love, 194. PROVIDENCE, the Divine, of the Lord extends to every thing, even to the minutest particulars concerning marriages, and in marriages, 229, 316. The operations of uses, by the Lord, by the spheres which proceed from Him, are the Divine Providence, 386, 391. Obs.
Those two propriums are deadly evils to man, if they remain with him, and the love of those two propriums is changed into conjugial love, so far as a man cleaves to his wife, that is, so far as he receives her love; see above, n. 193, and elsewhere. The things which relate to rational wisdom constitute the man's understanding, and those which relate to moral wisdom constitute his will.
But then, as it would never do for all minds to be literally one, any more than it would for all magnetisms to be identical in their modes of manifestation, or for all the rivers, creeks, and canals to flow together, so we have our natural barriers and channels, our propriums, as the Swedish seer has it, and so we live and let live.
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