Swedenborg’s imagines holy Married Couples fusing into a single bi-gendered angel when they died, but only if they were filled with Conjugal Love. This would later evolve into the Mormon idea of a Temple Marriage.

Swedenborg’s concept of Conjugal love was a reflection of the Androgynous deity of the Esoteric tradition. Swedenborg sacralizes marriage as an attempt to transcend mortal single-genderedness and achieve closer union with the sacred.

These passages were scandalously sexual for the time. They helped spawn 1830’s experiments in Free Love, Polyamory and Polygamy. His style of mixing science, alchemy, and religion seems to be the model for New Religious Movements to follow.