122. It is clear that they cannot be in heaven, for just as they are against the love of marriage, so they are against affections for good and truth, from which heaven arose. For when marriage is mentioned there, filthy ideas at once come up, from the influx into the opposite. Their ideas contain obscene, or rather unspeakable things; and their intention is to destroy heavenly societies. Their religious belief consists in saying that they believe in a Creator of the universe, a merely universal Providence, salvation by faith alone, and they say that no worse can happen to them than others. But when they are examined to see what they are like at heart, as they are in the other life, they do not even believe these things, but in nature as the creator of the universe, in no providence instead of a universal one; they think nothing of faith; and regard religion as the shackle to keep the common people living a moral life. In the case of those in whom adulteries have produced distaste and loathing for marriage, anything pleasant, blessed, and happy which reaches them from heaven is turned into something loathsome and distasteful, then painful, and finally foul-smelling; or in other cases into obscene things.