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 loves that those
have who are in adulteries. So in place of the intelligence and wisdom
that those have who live chastely in marriages there are the insanities
and follies that those have who are in adulteries; in place of the
innocence and peace that those have who live in chaste marriages there
are the deceit and no peace that those have who are in adulteries; in
place of the power and protection against the hells that those have who
live chastely in marriages there are the very Asmodean demons and the
hells that those have who live in adulteries; in place of the beauty
that those have who live chastely in marriages there is the deformity
that those have who live in adulteries, which is monstrous according to
what they are. Their final lot is that from the extreme impotence to
which they are at length reduced they become emptied of all the fire and
light of life, and dwell alone in deserts as images of the slothfulness
and weariness of their own life. (A.E., n. 1003.)

True marriage love is impossible except between two, like the Lord's
love toward heaven, which is one from Him and in Him, or toward the
church, which like heaven is one from Him and in Him. All who are in
the heavens and who are in the church must be one through mutual love
from love to the Lord. An angel in heaven or a man in the church who
does not thus make one with the rest is not of heaven or of the church.
Moreover, in the whole heaven and in the whole world there are two