in that place by the light of heaven flowing in, which is a sign that they are there; the reason of this is, because at first heaven is closed to them, and afterwards is opened.”  They then came to that place, and when the torches were extinguished of themselves, they saw a way tending obliquely upwards into heaven:  this those entered who were enraged against the priests; among the first, these who were determined adulterers, after them those who were confirmed adulterers; and as they ascended, the first cried out, “Follow;” and those who followed cried out, “Make haste;” and they pressed forward.  After near an hour, when they were all within in the heavenly society, there appeared a gulph between them and the angels; and the light of heaven above the gulph flowing into their eyes, opened the interiors of their minds, whereby they were bound to speak as they interiorly thought; and then they were asked by the angels, whether they acknowledged that God is?  The first, who were determined adulterers, replied, “What is God?” And they looked at each other, and said, “Which of you has seen him?” The second, who were confirmed adulterers, said, “Are not all things of nature?  What is there above nature but the sun?” And instantly the angels said to them, “Depart from us; now you yourselves perceive that you have no acknowledgement of God:  when you descend, the interiors of your mind will be closed and its exteriors opened, and then you can speak against the interiors, and say that God is.  Be assured that as soon as a man actually becomes an adulterer, heaven is closed to him; and when heaven is closed, God is not acknowledged.  Hear the reason; every filthy principle of hell is from adulterers, and it stinks in heaven like putrid mire of the streets.”  On hearing these things they turned themselves and descended by three ways; and when they were below, the first and second groups conversing together said, “The priests have conquered there; but we know that we can speak of God equally with them:  and when we say that he is, do we not acknowledge him?  The interiors and exteriors of the mind, of which the angels told us, are devised fictions.  But let us go to the second place pointed out by the judges, where a way is open into heaven to those who have heaven in themselves, thus to those who are about to come into heaven.”  When they were come thither, a voice proceeded from that heaven, saying, “Shut the gates; there are adulterers at hand.”  Then suddenly the gates were shut, and the keepers with sticks in their hands drove them away; and they delivered the three priests, against whom they had been tumultuous, from the hands of their keepers, and introduced them into heaven:  and instantly, when the gates were open for the priests, there issued from heaven upon the rebels the delightful principle of marriage, which, from its being chaste and pure, almost deprived them of animation; wherefore, for fear of fainting away through suffocation, they hastened to the third place, concerning which the judges said, that thence there was a way to hell; and instantly there issued from thence the delight of adultery, whereby those who were either determined or confirmed adulterers, were so vivified, that they descended as it were dancing, and there like swine immersed themselves in filth.