Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 2752

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2752. Those who have become eaten up with adultery wish more than all others in the next life to possess persons [in this world], and through these to come back into the world. But they are detained by the Lord in hell, to prevent them coming among those spirits who reside with men. The majority of those who are such come from the Christian world, rarely from other parts.


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