As I looked at them, and marked how they seemed to grow
daily into a oneness of spirit, could I doubt that there was for
them an eternal union? No, no. Such doubts would have been false to
the instincts of my own soul, and false to the instincts of every
conscious being made to love and be loved.
"The laying aside of this earthly investiture," said Wallingford,
resuming, "the passage from mortal to immortal life, cannot change
our spirits, but only give to all their powers a freer and more
perfect development. Love is not a quality of the body, but of the
spirit, and will remain in full force, after the body is cast off
like the shell of a chrysalis. Still existing, it will seek its
object. And shall it seek forever and not find? God forbid! No! The
love I bear my wife is not, I trust, all of the earth, earthy; but
instinct with a heavenly perpetuity. And when we sleep the sleep of
death, it will be in the confident assurance of a speedy and more
perfect conjunction of our lives. On a subject of such deep concern,
we are dissatisfied with the vague and conjectural; and this is why
the record of things seen and heard in the spiritual world by
Swedenborg--especially in what relates to marriages in heaven--has
for us such an absorbing interest.
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