2614. As soon as I was awake I saw a large dog with frightful jaws, and I inquired what it symbolized. Later I was told that such a dog appears, or such a dog is portrayed, when someone is carried down to an opposite pleasure. That pleasantness was heavenly because it pertained to marriage love with its inward heavenly joy when, content with their own few belongings, they live in their little house with their partner whom they love most tenderly, and with their children, their mind content in the Lord. When one passes over from the pleasantness of that heavenly love to its opposite-which those who are absorbed in its opposite feel as heavenly pleasure, when yet it is hellish-then such a dog is presented to view, by which is portrayed that he keeps guard lest opposite pleasures communicate with each other. This also shows what was symbolized in the fables by Cerberus.