are forms of their
affections, for the reason that it is not permitted in heaven to
counterfeit with the face things that do not belong to one's affection;
consequently their faces are types of their minds. When, therefore,
they have marriage love, and love of wisdom, these loves in them give
form to their faces, and show themselves like vital fires in their eyes;
to which innocence and peace add themselves, which complete their
beauty. Such are the forms of the inmost angelic heaven; and they are
truly human forms. (A.E., n. 1001.)

From what has been thus far presented what the good is that results from
chastity in marriage can be inferred, consequently what the good works
of chastity are that a man does who shuns adulteries as sins against
God. The good works of chastity concern either the married pair
themselves, or their offspring and posterity, or the heavenly societies.

The good works of chastity that concern the married pair themselves are
spiritual and celestial loves, intelligence and wisdom, innocence and
peace, power and protection against the hells and against the evils and
the falsities therefrom, and manifold joys and felicities to eternity.
Those who live in chaste marriages, as before described, have all these.

The good works of chastity that concern the offspring and posterity are
that so many and so great evils do not become innate in families. For
the ruling love of parents is transmitted to the offspring and sometimes
to remote posterity, and becomes their hereditary nature. This is
broken and softened in parents who shun adulteries as infernal and love
marriages as heavenly. The good works of chastity that concern the
heavenly societies are that chaste marriages are the charms of heaven,
that they are its nurseries, and that they are its supports. They
supply charms to heaven by communications; they are nurseries to heaven
by producing offspring; and they are supports to heaven by their power
against the hells; for at the presence of conjugal love devilish spirits
become furious, insane, and mentally impotent, and cast themselves into
the deep. (A.E., n. 1002.)

From the goods enumerated and described that result from chaste
marriages it may be concluded what the evils are that result from
adulteries; for such evils are the opposites of such goods; that is, in
place of the spiritual and celestial loves that those have who live in
chaste marriages, there are the infernal and devilish l