Heaven and Hell (Harley) n. 377

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377. From this it is clear that those who are in falsities, and especially in falsities from evil, are not in conjugial love. Moreover, those who are in evil and in falsities therefrom have the interiors of their minds closed up; and, therefore, there can be no source of conjugial love therein; but below those interiors, in the external or natural man separated from the internal, there can be a conjunction of falsity and evil, which is called infernal marriage. I have been permitted to see what this marriage is between those who are in the falsities of evil, which is called infernal marriage. Such converse together, and are united by a lustful desire, but inwardly they burn with a deadly hatred towards each other, too intense to be described.


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