age love descends.{1} Falsity and evil also love each other, but
this love is afterwards changed into hell.

{Footnote 1} All things in the universe, both in heaven and in
the world, have relation to good and truth (n. 2452, 3166,
4390, 4409, 5232, 7256, 10122). And to the conjunction of these
(n. 10555). Between good and truth there is marriage (n. 1904,
2173, 2508). Good loves truth, and from love longs for truth
and for the conjunction of truth with itself, and from this
they are in a perpetual endeavor to be conjoined (n. 9206,
9207, 9495). The life of truth is from good (n. 1589, 1997,
2572, 4070, 4096, 4097, 4736, 4757, 4884, 5147, 9667). Truth is
the form of good (n. 3049, 3180, 4574, 9154). Truth is to good
as water is to bread (n. 4976).

376. From what has now been said about the origin of marriage love
one may conclude who are in that love and who are not; namely, that
those are in marriage love who are in Divine good from Divine truths;
and that marriage love is genuine just to the extent that the truths
are genuine with which the good is conjoined. And as all the good
that is conjoined with truths is from the Lord, it follows that no
one can be in true marriage love unless he acknowledges the Lord and
His Divine; for without that acknowledgment the Lord cannot flow in
and be conjoined with the truths that are in man.

377. Evidently, then, those that are in falsities, and especially
those that are in falsities from evil, are not in marriage love.
Moreover, those that are in evil and in falsities therefrom have the
interiors of their minds closed up; and in such, therefore, there can
be no source of marriage love; but below those interiors, in the
external or natural man separated from the internal, there can be a
conjunction of falsity and evil, which is called infernal marriage. I
have been permitted to see what this marriage is between those that
are in the falsities of evil, which is called infernal marriage. Such
converse together, and are united by a lustful desire, but inwardly
they burn with a deadly hatred towards each other, too intense to be
described.

378. Nor can marriage love exist between two partners belonging to
different religions, because the truth of the one does not agree with
the good of the other; and two unlike and discordant kinds of good
and truth cannot make one mind out of two; and in consequence the
love of such does not have its origin in any th