Fast Facts—Heavenly Marriage

In the celestial degree of the spiritual heaven, the members are of one, both male and female, or rather if our eyes could pierce through the enfolding glory, we would not know whether we saw two or one. They are so truly united as to appear like one. In other words, in the heavenly marriage state, the two are but one, and cannot be separated.

But in the celestial house, all are angels and of the marriage state. But of those in this lower house, some are not yet of the marriage state, and hence are not yet angels. For those who are worthy of that resurrection, neither marry nor are given in marriage. Then are they like the angels of God in heaven. Those who attain are those in whom heavenly good, and heavenly truth are eternally united, which is the marriage state. For as good without truth is of no avail, so truth without good is dead, but together are a perfect creation. And as all truths or principles must be ultimated in form, or they are but as a dream, void of substance, so the good is manifest in the woman whose external is love, and wisdom in the man whose external is truth. This is the heavenly marriage, in verity and in form.