3196. I was shown by clear spiritual mental images how these cast themselves headlong into dreadful deaths, or deadly hellish qualities. On one side was displayed enjoyment and happiness, how it opens up into very many kinds of happiness, then into more inward happiness, and toward heaven, together with complete freedom, so that one does not desire anything but to enter more and more deeply into the love of one's partner, thus into the inward, very inward, and innermost heaven, with happiness leading the way, inviting and desiring. And because love is of that nature, there is the greatest freedom, for so the Lord leads man to himself, so also there is absolutely no such delight in the universe as that of marriage love, as is known just from its outer delights-what delights may there not be if they are partners more deeply? And such marriage love is heaven on earth. The reason this is so is first, the Lord's love toward the Church; next, the propagation of the human race, the seedbed of heaven; then also, the coming forth and maintenance, or creation and conservation, of the universe is from marriage love.