433. That conjugial love makes a man more a man is also shown by those points which we presented previously in Part One, concerning love and the delights of its wisdom. Namely: (1) That the ability or virtue called virility accompanies wisdom as this is animated by spiritual matters connected with the church, and that such an ability or virtue is inherent therefore in conjugial love. Moreover, that such wisdom opens up the stream of this love from its wellspring in the soul, and thus invigorates and also blesses with continuance the life of the intellect, which is the essential life of masculinity. (2) That in consequence, angels in heaven possess this ability to eternity, according to their own declarations (reported in the narrative account in nos. 355-356). Likewise, that the most ancient peoples in the golden and silver ages possessed a continuing ability, because they loved the amatory embraces of their wives and shrank in horror from those of harlots, as I have heard from their own testimony (see the narrative accounts in nos. 75, 76). [2] I have further been told from heaven that neither will such a spiritual capability be lacking to people in the natural world today who go to the Lord and abhor adulteries as infernal. The opposite experience, however, befalls purposeful adulterers and deliberate adulterers (as defined just above, at the end of no. 432). In their case the ability or virtue called virility decreases in vigor to the point that it is lost, and after that coldness sets in towards even any of the opposite sex, followed by a kind of loathing that approaches revulsion - something that is known, though seldom confessed. Of such a character are those adulterers in hell. This I have heard, at some distance away, from sirens in hell, who are worn-out figures of sexual lust, and also from brothels there. It follows from these considerations that licentious love makes a person less and less human and less and less a man, while conjugial love makes a person more and more human and more and more a man.