We speak of celestial blessings, spiritual bliss and natural pleasures, because the human mind is divided into three regions, the highest being called celestial, the second spiritual, and the third natural. In the case of those who enjoy truly conjugial love these three regions stand wide open, and one influences the next depending on how far they are opened. Since the charms of that love are at their most excellent in the highest region, they are perceived as blessings; and being less excellent in the second region, they are there perceived as bliss, and finally in the lowest region as pleasures. It is established by the accounts of experiences, where they are described, that these exist and are perceived and felt.

[2] The reason why all these kinds of happiness have been provided from the beginning for those who enjoy truly conjugial love, is that there is in the Lord an infinity of all blessings. He also is Divine love, and it is the essence of love to want to share everything good it has with the other who is loved. The Lord therefore created that love together with mankind, and imprinted on it the ability to receive and perceive those good things. Is there anyone so dense or mad as to be unable to see that there is some love on which the Lord has conferred all the blessings, bliss and pleasures which can ever be conferred?