99. (10) When conjugial love has been implanted, love for the opposite sex turns around and becomes a chaste love for the opposite sex. We say that love for the opposite sex then turns around, because when conjugial love comes to its source, which lies in the inner recesses of the mind, it sees love for the opposite sex not before it but behind it, or not above it but below it, thus viewing it as something it has left in passing. It is similar to what happens when someone rises from position to position in his work, finally reaching one much higher in rank, and then looks back at the positions behind or below him through which he passed. Or to what happens when someone plans a journey to the court of some king, then after his arrival turns and looks back on the things he saw on the way. Testimony that love for the opposite sex still remains then and becomes chaste, and yet sweeter than before to people who are in a state of truly conjugial love - this may be seen from the description of it by people who are in the spiritual world, recorded in two accounts from that world in nos. 44 and 55.