erous love is opposed to conjugial love, as the natural man
viewed in himself is opposed to the spiritual man, n. 426. Adulterous
love is opposed to conjugial love, as the connubial connection of what
is evil and false is opposed to the marriage of good and truth, n. 427,
428. Hence adulterous love is opposed to conjugial love as hell is to
heaven, n. 429. The impurity of hell is from adulterous love, and the
purity of heaven from conjugial love, n. 430. In the church, the
impurity and the purity are similarly circumstanced, n. 431. Adulterous
love more and more makes a man (_homo_) not a man (_homo_), and a man
(_vir_) not a man (_vir_); and conjugial love makes a man (_homo_) more
and more a man (_homo_) and a man (_vir_), n. 432, 433. There are a
sphere of adulterous love and a sphere of conjugial love, n. 434. The
sphere of adulterous love ascends from hell, and the sphere of conjugial
love descends from heaven, n. 435. In each world those two spheres meet,
but do not unite, n. 436. Between those two spheres there is an
equilibrium, and man is in it, n. 437. A man can turn himself to
whichever sphere he pleases; but so far as he turns himself to the one,
so far he turns himself from the other, n. 438. Each sphere brings with
it delights, n. 439. The delights of adulterous love commence from the
flesh, and are of the flesh even in the spirit; but the delights of
conjugial love commence in the spirit, and are of the spirit even in the
flesh, n. 440, 441, The delights of adulterous love are the pleasures of
insanity; but the delights of conjugial love are the delights of wisdom,
n. 442, 443.

ON FORNICATION, n. 444*-460.

Fornication is of the love of the sex, n. 445. The love of the sex, from
which fornication is derived, commences when a youth begins to think and
act from his own understanding, and his voice to be masculine, n. 446.
Fornication is of the natural man, n. 447. Fornication is lust, but not
the lust of adultery, n. 448, 449. With some men, the love of the sex
cannot without hurt be totally checked from going forth into
fornication, n. 450. Therefore in populous cities public stews are
tolerated, n. 451. Fornication is light, so far as it looks to conjugial
love, and gives this love the preference, n. 452. The lust of
fornication is grievous, so far as it looks to adultery, n. 453. The
lust of fornication is more grievous as it verges to the desire of
varieties and of defloration, n. 454. The sphere of t