PART THE SECOND.

PRELIMINARY NOTE BY THE EDITOR.

ON THE OPPOSITION OF ADULTEROUS LOVE AND CONJUGIAL LOVE, n. 423-443.

It is not known what adulterous love is, unless it be known what conjugial love is, n. 424.  Adulterous love is opposed to conjugial love, n. 425.  Adulterous love is opposed to conjugial love, as the natural man viewed in himself is opposed to the spiritual man, n. 426.  Adulterous love is opposed to conjugial love, as the connubial connection of what is evil and false is opposed to the marriage of good and truth, n. 427, 428.  Hence adulterous love is opposed to conjugial love as hell is to heaven, n. 429.  The impurity of hell is from adulterous love, and the purity of heaven from conjugial love, n. 430.  In the church, the impurity and the purity are similarly circumstanced, n. 431.  Adulterous love more and more makes a man (homo) not a man (homo), and a man (vir) not a man (vir); and conjugial love makes a man (homo) more and more a man (homo) and a man (vir), n. 432, 433.  There are a sphere of adulterous love and a sphere of conjugial love, n. 434.  The sphere of adulterous love ascends from hell, and the sphere of conjugial love descends from heaven, n. 435.  In each world those two spheres meet, but do not unite, n. 436.  Between those two spheres there is an equilibrium, and man is in it, n. 437.  A man can turn himself to whichever sphere he pleases; but so far as he turns himself to the one, so far he turns himself from the other, n. 438.  Each sphere brings with it delights, n. 439.  The delights of adulterous love commence from the flesh, and are of the flesh even in the spirit; but the delights of conjugial love commence in the spirit, and are of the spirit even in the flesh, n. 440, 441, The delights of adulterous love are the pleasures of insanity; but the delights of conjugial love are the delights of wisdom, n. 442, 443.

ON FORNICATION, n. 444*-460.

Fornication is of the love of the sex, n. 445.  The love of the sex, from which fornication is derived, commences when a youth begins to think and act from his own understanding, and his voice to be masculine, n. 446.  Fornication is of the natural man, n. 447.  Fornication is lust, but not the lust of adultery, n. 448, 449.  With some men, the love of the sex cannot without hurt be totally checked from going forth into fornication, n. 450.  Therefore in populous cities public stews are tolerated, n. 451.  Fornication is light, so far as it looks to conjugial love, and gives this love the preference, n. 452.  The lust of fornication is grievous, so far as it looks to adultery, n. 453.  The lust of fornication is more grievous as it verges to the desire of varieties and of defloration, n. 454.  The sphere of the lust of fornication, such as it is in the beginning, is a middle sphere between the sphere of adulterous love and the sphere of conjugial