De Conjugio (Chadwick) n. 109

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109. Those who had lived in the opposites of conjugial love, that is, in adulteries, when they approached me, caused pain in my loins, the intensity of which varied according to the adulterous life they had led. From this it was plain that the loins correspond to conjugial love. Moreover, their hell is under the rear part of the loins, beneath the buttocks, where they live in filthy and excrementitious conditions; and these are actually a pleasure to them, for such are the correspondences of their pleasures in the spiritual world.


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