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Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772

"The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love"

495, 496. And this to
such a degree, that at length they reject from themselves all things of
the church and of religion, n. 497. Nevertheless they have the powers of
human rationality like other men, n. 498. But they use that rationality
while they are in externals, but abuse it while they are in externals,
n. 499.
ON THE LUST OF DEFLORATION, n. 501-505.
The state of a virgin or undeflowered woman before and after marriage,
n. 502. Virginity is the crown of chastity and the certificate of
conjugial love, n. 503. Defloration, without a view to marriage as an
end, is the villany of a robber, n. 504. The lot of those who have
confirmed themselves in the persuasion that the lust of defloration is
not an evil of sin, after death is grievous, n. 505.
ON THE LUST OF VARIETIES, n. 506-510.
By the lust of varieties is meant the entirely dissolute lust of
adultery, n. 507. That lust is love, and at the same time loathing, in
regard to the sex, n. 508. The lot of those (who have been addicted to
that lust) after death is miserable, since they have not the inmost
principle of life, n.


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