2732. I have talked to angels about the nature of this reciprocal expression and receipt of desire. They have said that an image and likeness of one partner exists in the mind of the other, and that in this condition the two live together, sharing not only the specific but also the inmost things of life, and that the Lord's love and mercy are able to enter with blessedness and happiness into such a oneness. They also said that those who during their lifetime lived in such conjugial love are with each other and live together in heaven as angels, sometimes with their children too. But very few enter heaven thus from present-day Christendom, whereas all who belonged to the Most Ancient Church, which was celestial, and many who belonged to the Ancient Church, which was spiritual, did so. The angels also told me that those who lived in matrimony, yet were not held together by conjugial love but by licentious love, are separated in the next life - for no licentiousness at all is tolerated in heaven - and those even more so who disliked each other, and more so still those who hated each other. When both partners enter the next life, in most cases they meet each other, but after much suffering they are separated.