Conjugial Love (Chadwick) n. 212

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212. The reverse happens in the case of those whose lack of any love of wisdom means that they have no conjugial love either. These people do not contract marriages except with the intention of indulging their lasciviousness, an intention which contains within it a love of folly. For every intention is in essence a love, and lasciviousness is in its spiritual origin folly. We mean by folly the raving of a mind deranged by false ideas; and the worst form of raving is that of a mind deranged by true ideas which have been falsified, to such a point that they are believed to be wisdom. In the spiritual world a clear proof and convincing argument is offered to show that these people are opponents of conjugial love. For there at the first sniff of conjugial love they take refuge in caves and shut themselves in; if the gates are opened, they rave like the demented in the world.


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