Heaven and Hell - Swedenborg Foundation

HEAVEN AND HELL 405
[7] Those that have regarded adulteries as abominable, and
have lived in a chaste love of marriage, are more than all others
in the order and form of heaven, and therefore in all beauty,
and continue unceasingly in the flower of youth. The delights
of their love are ineffable, and increase to eternity; for all the
delights and joys of heaven flow into that love, because that
love descends from the conjunction of the Lord with heaven
and with the church, and in general from the conjunction of
good and truth, which conjunction is heaven itself in general,
and with each angel in particular (see above, n. 366–386).
What their outward delights are it is impossible to describe in
human words. These are only a few of the things that have
been told me about the correspondences of the delights of
those that are in heavenly love.
490. All this makes evident that everyone’s delights are
changed after death into their correspondences, while the love
itself continues to eternity. This is true of marriage love, of the
love of justice, honesty, goodness and truth, the love of sciences
and of knowledges, the love of intelligence and wisdom, and
the rest. From these loves delights flow like streams from their
fountain; and these continue; but when raised from natural to
spiritual delights they are exalted to a higher degree.