AE 991 [6]
What the delight of hatred and thus of doing evil
is with those who are in hell
can neither be described nor believed.
To do evil is the joy of their heart,
and this they call their heaven.
Their delight in doing evil
derives its all from hatred and vindictiveness
against good and truth; when,
therefore, they are moved by
a deadly and diabolical hatred
they rage against heaven,
especially against those who are from heaven
and who worship the Lord;
for they violently burn to slaughter them,
and because they cannot destroy their bodies
they will to destroy their souls.
AE 993 [2]
That true conjugial love contains in itself
so many ineffable delights
that can neither be numbered nor described
can be seen from the fact
that this love is the fundamental love
of all celestial and spiritual loves,
since through that love a man becomes love;
for from it each of the marriage pair loves the other
as good loves truth and truth loves good,
thus representatively
as the Lord loves heaven and the church.
Such love can exist only through a marriage in which
the man is truth and the wife is good.
When a man through marriage has become such love
he is also in love to the Lord
and in love towards the neighbor,
and thus in the love of all good
and in the love of all truth.
For from man as love
there must proceed loves of every kind;
therefore conjugial love is the fundamental love
of all the loves of heaven.
And as it is the fundamental love
of all the loves of heaven
it is also the fundamental
of all the delights and joys of heaven,
since every delight and joy is of love.
From this it follows that heavenly joys,
in their order and in their degrees,
have their origins and their causes from conjugial love.
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