520.  As the natural principle and the spiritual appertaining to every man (homo), cohere as soul and body, (for a man without the spiritual principle which flows into and vivifies his natural principle, is not a man), it hence follows, that whoever is in spiritual marriage is also in happy natural marriage; and on the contrary, that whoever is in spiritual adultery is also in natural adultery, and whoever is in natural adultery is also in spiritual adultery.  Now since all who are in hell are in the nuptial connection of evil and the false, and this is essential spiritual adultery; and all who are in heaven are in the marriage of good and truth, and this is essential marriage; therefore hell in the total is called adultery, and heaven in the total is called marriage.

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521.  To the above shall be added this MEMORABLE RELATION.  My sight being opened, I saw a shady forest, and therein a crowd of satyrs:  the satyrs as to their breasts were rough and hairy, and as to their feet some were like calves, some like panthers, and some like wolves, and they had beasts’ claws instead of toes.  These were running to and fro like wild beasts, crying out, “Where are the women?” and instantly I saw some harlots who were expecting them, and who in various ways were monstrous.  The satyrs ran towards them, and laid hold of them, dragging them into a cavern, which was in the midst of the forest deep beneath the earth; and upon the ground round about the cavern lay a great serpent in spiral foldings, breathing poison into the cavern:  in the branches of the forest above the serpent dismal birds of night croaked and screeched.  But the satyrs and harlots did not see these things, because they were the correspondences of their lasciviousnesses, and therefore their usual appearances at a distance.  Afterwards they came out of the cavern, and entered a certain low cottage, which was a brothel; and then being separated from the harlots they talked together, and I listened; for conversation in the spiritual world may be heard by a distant person as if he was present, the extent of space in that world being only an appearance.  They talked about marriages, nature, and religion.  Those who as to the feet appeared like calves, spoke concerning MARRIAGES, and said, “What are marriages but licit adulteries? and what is sweeter than adulterous hypocrisies, and the making fools of husbands?” At this the rest clapped their hands with a loud laugh.  The satyrs who as to the feet appeared as panthers, spoke concerning NATURE, and said, “What is there but nature?  What distinction is there between a man and a beast, except that a man can speak articulately and a beast sonorously?  Does not each derive life from heat, and understanding from light, by the operation of nature?” Hereupon the rest exclaimed, “Admirable! you speak from judgement.”  Those who as to the feet appeared like wolves, spoke concerning RELIGION, saying, “What is God or a divine principle,