992. Because of their anguish and because of their sores. That this signifies from the loathing and nauseating of genuine goods and truths, arising from the evils and falsities in which those are who are in faith alone, is evident from the signification of anguish, as denoting the loathing of genuine goods and truths, arising from the falsities in which those are who are in faith alone (concerning which see n. 990), and from the signification of sores, as denoting nausea from evils of the life. That by sores are signified the evil deeds from man's proprium, and thence the falsifications of truth and good, may be seen above (n. 962). The reason why nausea is signified is, that pain from the sores is meant, because of which they blasphemed the God of heaven; but still pain on that account is not meant, but an utter distaste for truths and the goods from them.
Continuation concerning the Sixth Precept:-
[2] It has been said that the love of adultery is a fire enkindled from impurities, which soon burns out and is turned into cold, and into an aversion corresponding to hatred. But it is quite different with the love of marriage. This is a fire enkindled from the love of good and truth, and from the delight of well-doing, thus from love to the Lord and from love towards the neighbour. This fire, which from its origin is heavenly, is full of innumerable delights - as many as are the delights and blessednesses of heaven. It has been told me that the delights and pleasantness of that love, which are alternately manifested, are so many and so great that they cannot be numbered and described. They are also multiplied and continually increased to eternity. Those delights originate from this fact, that conjugial partners desire to become one as to their minds, and that heaven, from the marriage of good and truth from the Lord there, acts in such a union.
[3] I will here relate some particulars concerning the marriages of angels in heaven. They say that they are in continual potency; that afterwards there is never any weariness, much less sadness, but alacrity and cheerfulness of mind. That conjugial partners mutually pass the night in each other's bosoms, as if they had been created as one; that effects are constantly open, so that they are never deficient where they desire, because without these their love would be as the source of a fountain stopped up. The effect opens that source, and makes it continuous, and also conjunction, so that they may become as one flesh as it were, for the vitality of the man adds itself to the vitality of the wife, and causes union. They say, that the delights arising from the effects cannot be described in any language in the natural world, and can be thought only by means of spiritual ideas, and even these cannot exhaust it. These things have been told me by the angels.
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