Arcana Coelestia #2755

By Emanuel Swedenborg

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2755. The hells of adulterers are many. There they love nothing more than filth and excrement; for these are now the things which give them delight. This may also become clear from many of that sort while living in the body, for whom both thinking and making references to filthy things is delightful, but who refrain from doing so merely for the sake of decency. The delight of adultery is in the next life turned into such filth and excrement. It is like the warmth of the sun, even that of springtime, when that warmth flows into excrement or into a dead body.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.