792. [verse 22] 'And the voice of harpers and musicians and flute-players and trumpeters shall not be heard in thee any more' signifies that with them there will not be any affection of spiritual truth and good, nor affection of celestial truth and good. By 'the voice' is understood the sound, and every sound corresponds to an affection that is of love, since it arises therefrom. Consequently the sounds of the harp, of music, and of the flute, by virtue of the correspondence signify affections. But affections are of two kinds, spiritual and celestial. Spiritual affections are affections of wisdom, and celestial affections are affections of love. They differ from each other in the same way as the heavens, which, as has frequently been said above, are distinguished into two kingdoms, the celestial and the spiritual. There are therefore musical instruments the sounds of which relate to spiritual affections, and there are those that relate to celestial affections. The voice or sound of harpers and musicians relates to spiritual affections, and the voice or sound of flute-players and trumpeters to celestial affections. For the instruments the sounds of which are discrete, as stringed instruments, pertain to the class of spiritual affections; and the instruments of which the sounds are continuous, as wind instruments, pertain to the class of celestial affections. This is why the voice or sound 'of harpers and musicians' signifies the affection of spiritual truth and good, while the voice or sound 'of flute-players and trumpeters' signifies the affection of celestial truth and good. That the sound of the harp from correspondence signifies confession out of the affection of spiritual truth may be seen (n. 276, 661). [2] It is here understood that those who are in the evils and untruths of the Roman Catholic form of religion have neither affections of spiritual truth and good nor affections of celestial truth and good, for it is said that 'the voice of harpers and musicians and flute-players and trumpeters shall not be heard in thee any more'. The reason why they do not have them is because with them they cannot be given, for they do not have any truth out of the Word; and because there is no truth, neither is there any good. This is given only with those who desire truths; but no others desire truths out of a spiritual affection than those who approach the Lord. These, in accordance with this desire of theirs, are instructed after death by angels and receive those truths. The external affections in which they are while they are hearing masses and in the other devotions that are without truths from the Lord by means of the Word are nothing but merely natural, sensual and corporeal affections; and because they are such, and without internals derived from the Lord, it is not to be wondered that in a dense darkness and blindness they are brought to the worship of living and dead persons, and to sacrifices to demons, who are called plutos, in order to make an atonement for their souls.