239. It follows from what has been said that where there is no religion, neither can there be conjugial love; and where this is absent, there will be coldness. Coldness in marriage is having that love taken away (see 235 above). Consequently coldness in marriage is also having the state of the church or religion taken away. A clear enough proof of this can be drawn from the general ignorance today about truly conjugial love. Is there anyone today who knows, or is willing to acknowledge, or will not be surprised to learn, that this is the source of conjugial love? The only reason for this ignorance is that although religion exists, still its truths do not; and what is religion without truths? The absence of truths was fully demonstrated in THE APOCALYPSE REVEALED; see too the experiences quoted there (566).