Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 2746

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2746. There was a certain spirit fairly high up overhead who during his lifetime had lived licentiously and had delighted in variety, so that he did not love one woman constantly but frequented brothels. Thus he had fornicated with many, each of whom he had rejected after going with her. It therefore came about that he had cheated many and that consequently he had annihilated the desire for marriage, and even the desire to beget children, and so had acquired an unnatural nature. All these things were disclosed, and then he suffered wretched punishment - these events being witnessed by the angels; and after that he was cast into hell. Concerning the hells of adulterers, see Volume One, in 824-830.


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