That fructifications, propagations, and prolifications, are continuations of creation, is evident; for creation cannot be from any other source, than from divine love by divine wisdom in divine use; wherefore all things in the universe are Procreated and formed from use, in use, and for use."
"The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love"
Emanuel Swedenborg
103-114. 245. It may be urged as an objection to what has been proved above, that still the soul is propagated from the father although it is not conjoined to the soul of the mother, yea, although cold residing therein causes separation; but the reason why souls or offspring are nevertheless propagated is, because the understanding of the man is not closed, but is capable of being elevated into the light into which the soul is; but the love of his will is not elevated into the heat corresponding to the light there, except by the life, which makes him from natural become spiritual; hence it is, that the soul is still Procreated, but, in the descent, while it becomes seed, it is veiled over by such things as belong to his natural love; from this springs hereditary evil.
"The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love"
Emanuel Swedenborg
390. The reason why the sphere of procreating, and the sphere of protecting the things Procreated, make a one in a continual series, is, because the love of procreating is continued into the love of what is Procreated.
"The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love"
Emanuel Swedenborg
