flowery fields; the odors whereby they are presented to the sense, are the perfumes arising from fruits and the fragrancies from flowers; and the forms of animals under which they are presented to the view are lambs, kids, turtle-doves, and birds of paradise.  The reason why the delights of love are changed into such and similar things is, because all things which exist in the spiritual world are correspondences:  into these correspondences the internals of the minds of the inhabitants are changed, while they pass away and become external before the senses.  But it is to be observed, that there are innumerable varieties of impurities, into which the lasciviousnesses of whoredoms are changed, while they pass off into their correspondences:  these varieties are according to the genera and species of those lasciviousnesses, as may be seen in the following pages, where adulteries and their degrees are treated of:  such impurities however do not proceed from the delights of the love of those who have repented; because they have been washed from them during their abode in the world.

431.  VII.  THE IMPURITY AND THE PURITY IN THE CHURCH ARE SIMILARLY CIRCUMSTANCED. The reason of this is, because the church is the Lord’s kingdom in the world, corresponding to his kingdom in the heavens; and also the Lord conjoins them together, that they may make a one; for he distinguishes those who are in the world, as he distinguishes heaven and hell, according to their loves.  Those who are in the immodest and obscene delights of adulterous love, associate to themselves similar spirits from hell:  whereas those who are in the modest and chaste delights of conjugial love, are associated by the Lord to similar angels from heaven.  While these their angels, in their attendance on man, are stationed near to confirmed and determined adulterers, they are made sensible of the direful stenches mentioned above, n. 430, and recede a little.  On account of the correspondence of filthy loves with dunghills and bogs, it was commanded the sons of Israel, “That they should carry with them a paddle with which to cover their excrement, lest Jehovah God walking in the midst of their camp should see the nakedness of the thing, and should return,” Deut, xxiii. 13, 14.  This was commanded, because the camp of the sons of Israel represented the church, and those unclean things corresponded to the lascivious principles of whoredoms, and by Jehovah God’s walking in the midst of their camp was signified his presence with the angels.  The reason why they were to cover it was, because all those places in hell, where troops of such spirits have their abode, were covered and closed up, on which account also it is said, “lest he see the nakedness of the thing.”  It has been granted me to see that all those places in hell are closed up, and also that when they were opened, as was the case when a new demon entered, such a horrid stench issued from them, that it infested my belly with its noisomeness; and what is wonderful, those stenches are to the inhabitants as delightful as dunghills are to swine.  From these considerations it is evident, how it is to be understood, that the impurity in the church is from adulterous love, and its purity from conjugial love.