4686. (HOW AFFECTIONS AND LOVES CONJOIN AND DISJOIN. There were spirits with me quite a long time, a little above the head, who were neither very good nor very evil. They were able to inflow into the affections of writing about those things which [I had written] concerning the internal sense of the Word; and because, for a while, they entered more deeply into my affection, they bound themselves to me, so that they could scarcely be afterwards separated. I spoke with them about it, [saying] that it was in this wise: that it was necessary that they should be separated, for many reasons; but they were unable to accomplish this from themselves. Hence it could be known how closely affections and loves bind themselves. When they separated themselves from thence, and were by themselves, then they so deadened my thoughts, that I was scarcely able to think, save fitfully. There was an evil spirit who observed this, and, by such means, he harassed me exceedingly: yea, when they were separated from others, I felt a pain in my head, such as is experienced by those who fall into a swoon. Hence it could be manifest to me, that many swoons happen from this origin. It is hence evident, in what way loves conjoin; and thus, from thence, that all conjunction, and also disjunction, in the other life, is by loves. Truths do not cause this: only the affections of truth, which are of such quality, and are conjoined: thus, these things are not from faith, but from the affection which belongs to faith. I perceived such to be the case on several occasions; but I did not then know the reasons.