61. But it is the influx of conjugial love from heaven which causes the inhabitants of hell the greatest agony. I have seen spirits bound for hell when they were still in the world of spirits, which lies mid-way; these on feeling the influx of conjugial love are taken with fits of madness so that they behave like furies. They also suffer agonies like snakes in ant-hills, twisting their bodies and guts hither and thither, like one who is tortured by a dreadful internal pain. They said their pain was the greatest possible. The reason is that the love of marriage and the love of adultery are diametrically opposite, and conjugial love is itself heaven, and the love of adultery is hell. The love flows into their externals and causes agony to their internals.