Heaven and Hell - Swedenborg Foundation

HEAVEN AND HELL 401
these correspond to the delights of such loves. 275
Those that
have been sordidly avaricious dwell in cells, and love swinish
filth and such stenches as are exhaled from undigested food in
the stomach.
[5] Those that have spent their life in mere pleasures and
have lived delicately and indulged their palate and stomach,
loving such things as the highest good that life affords, love in
the other life excremental things and privies, in which they find
their delight, for the reason that such pleasures are spiritual
filth. Places that are clean and free from filth they shun,
finding them undelightful.
[6] Those that have taken delight in adulteries pass their time
in brothels, where all things are vile and filthy; these they love,
and chaste homes they shun, falling into a swoon as soon as
they enter them. Nothing is more delightful to them than to
break up marriages. Those that have cherished a spirit of
revenge, and have thereby contracted a savage and cruel nature,
love cadaverous substances, and are in hells of that nature; and
so on.
489. But the delights of life of those that have lived in the
world in heavenly love are changed into such corresponding
things as exist in the heavens, which spring from the sun of
heaven and its light, that light presenting to view such things as
have what is Divine inwardly concealed in them. The things
that appear in that light affect the interiors of the minds of the
angels, and at the same time the exteriors pertaining to their
bodies; and as the Divine light, which is Divine truth going
forth from the Lord, flows into their minds opened by
heavenly love, it presents outwardly such things as correspond
to the delights of their love. It has already been shown, in the
chapter on representatives and appearances in heaven (n.
170–176), and in the chapter on the wisdom of the angels (n.
275. The defilements of truth correspond to urine (n. 5390).