Conjugial love can make a person, as was demonstrated and proved by every detail brought to light for the reason to see in the first part of this book, on conjugial love and the delights of its wisdom. For instance: (a) a person who has truly conjugial love becomes more and more spiritual; and the more spiritual anyone is, the more human he is. (b) He becomes more and more wise; and the wiser anyone is, the more human he is. (c) He has the inner levels of his mind more and more opened, until he sees the Lord or acknowledges Him intuitively; and the more anyone has that vision or that acknowledgment, the more human he is. (d) He becomes more and more moral and a good citizen, because his spiritual soul is in his morality and civic consciousness, and the more anyone is morally a good citizen, the more human he is. (e) After death he also becomes an angel of heaven, and an angel is in essence and in shape a human being, and true humanity shines out from his face, and from his speech and behaviour. These facts establish that conjugial love makes a person more and more human.

[2] The opposite is the case with adulterers; this follows inevitably from the opposition between adultery and marriage, the subject already discussed and still being discussed in this chapter. For instance: (a) adulterers are not spiritual, but in the highest degree natural. A natural person, separated from the spiritual one, is only human as regards his intellect, but not as regards his will. He plunges this into the body and the lusts of the flesh, and at such times even the intellect accompanies the will. He is then no more than half human, as his intellectual powers of reason, if elevated, will enable him to see for himself. (b) Adulterers are not wise, except in what they say and in their gestures when in the company of people of high rank, distinguished learning and good morals. Left to themselves they are mad, treating Divine matters and the holy things of the church as of no importance, and defiling their ideals of life with immodest and unchaste behaviour, as will be proved in the chapter on adultery [XXI]. Anyone can see that people who put on such a show are human only in outward form, and not in their inward form. (c) Adulterers progressively become less and less human, as the witness of my own eyes has proved most clearly to me, having seen them in hell. There they are demons, and when seen in the light of heaven, their faces are like boils, their bodies hunchbacked, their conversation coarse, and their gestures theatrical.

[3] But it should be known that this description is of those who commit adultery of set purpose, not those who do so without forethought. For there are four types of adulterer, as will be seen in the chapter on adultery and its degrees. Deliberate adulterers are those who do so at the pleasure of the will. Confirmed adulterers are those who do so through a wrong intellectual belief. Adulterers on purpose are those who do so by being entrapped by the senses. Adulterers with no purpose are those who have not the ability or freedom to consult their intellect. It is the first two types of adulterers who become less and less human; the second two types become human, as they renounce their errors and then behave wisely.