By a spiritual mental image I saw clearly that when someone commits adultery, heaven is closed, namely, the inward regions that lie open toward heaven are closed, and he who commits adultery is thereafter only in outer ones. Thus to one who rejects the whole matrimonial debt, so that he does not know what it involves, that is, is not affected by the matrimonial obligation, when he commits adultery, heaven is closed. For the matrimonial debt involves what is heavenly and Divine, and the love of heavenly things-more with a woman than with a man. 1748, 18 Sept.