427. (4) Licentious love is opposed to conjugial love as the connubial alliance of evil and falsity is opposed to the marriage of good and truth. We showed above in its own chapter (nos. 83-102) that conjugial love originates from the marriage between good and truth. It follows from this that licentious love originates from the connubial alliance between evil and falsity, and that the two are therefore opposed, as evil is opposed to good, and as falsity arising from evil is opposed to the truth arising from good. It is the delights of the two loves that are thus opposed; for love is nothing without its delights. [2] That these delights are thus opposed to each other is not at all apparent. It is not apparent because the delight of an evil love outwardly counterfeits the delight of a good love. Inwardly, however, the delight of an evil love consists of nothing but evil lusts, evil itself being a conglomerate mass or pile of such lusts; whereas the delight of a good love consists of countless good affections, good itself being, so to speak, a cluster of such affections united together. This mass of the one and cluster of the other are not felt by a person except as the same delight; and because the delight arising from evil outwardly counterfeits the delight arising from good, as said, therefore the delight in adultery is not felt except as the delight in marriage. But after death, when everyone puts aside external appearances, and internal realities are laid bare, it then becomes evident to the sense that the evil of adultery is a mass of evil lusts, and that the good of marriage is a cluster of good affections; thus that they are altogether opposed to each other.