Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 1113

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1113. There are girls who have been misled into prostitution, and so have been persuaded that there is nothing evil about it, but who are of a decent disposition in every other respect. Because they have not yet reached the age when they are able to recognize and judge that way of life for themselves, they have an instructor with them, extremely strict, who punishes them as often as their thoughts turn to such loose behaviour. This man they fear exceedingly, and in this way they are vastated. But grown women who have been prostitutes, and have enticed others to be so, do not undergo vastation but are in hell.


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