because in opposite loves; the heavens in the love and thence in the delight of doing good, but the hells in the love and thence in the delight of doing evil; if therefore you know what delight is, you will know the nature and quality of heaven and hell.  But inquire and learn further what delight is from those who investigate causes, and are called intelligences:  they are to the right from hence.”  He departed, and came to them, and told them the reason of his coming, and requested that they would teach him what delight is?  And they, rejoicing at the question, said, “It is true that he that knows what delight is, knows the nature and quality of heaven and hell.  The will-principle, by virtue whereof a man is a man, cannot be moved at all but by delight; for the will-principle, considered in itself, is nothing but an affect and effect of some love, thus of some delight; for it is somewhat pleasing, engaging, and pleasurable, which constitutes the principle of willing; and since the will moves the understanding to think, there does not exist the least idea of thought but from the influent delight of the will.  The reason of this is, because the Lord by influx from himself actuates all things of the soul and the mind with angels, spirits, and men; which he does by an influx of love and wisdom; and this influx is the essential activity from which comes all delight, which in its origin is called blessed, satisfactory, and happy, and in its derivation is called delightful, pleasant, and pleasurable, and in a universal sense, GOOD.  But the spirits of hell invert all things with themselves; thus they turn good into evil, and the true into the false, their delights continually remaining:  for without the continuance of delight, they would have neither will nor sensation, thus no life.  From these considerations may be seen the nature and origin of the delight of hell, and also the nature and origin of the delight of heaven.”  Having heard this, he was conducted to the third company, consisting of those who scrutinize effects, and are called knowledges.  These said, “Descend to the inferior earth, and ascend to the superior earth:  in the latter you will perceive and be made sensible of the delights of the angels of heaven, and in the former of the delights of the spirits of hell.”  But lo! at that instant, at a distance from them, the ground cleft asunder, and through the cleft there ascended three devils, who appeared on fire from the delight of their love; and as those who accompanied the novitiate spirit perceived that the three ascended out of hell by proviso, they said to them, “Do not come nearer; but from the place where you are, give some account of your delights.”  Whereupon they said, “Know, then, that every one, whether he be good or evil, is in his own delight; the good in the delight of his good, and the evil in the delight of his evil.”  They were then asked, “What is your delight?” They said.  “The delight of whoring, stealing, defrauding, and blaspheming.”  Again they