384. Marriages on the earth are most holy in the sight of the angels of heaven because they are seminaries of the human race, and also of the angels of heaven (heaven being from the human race, as already shown above, in the relevant section), also because these marriages are from a spiritual origin, namely, from the marriage of good and truth, and because the Lord's Divine flows especially into that love. Adulteries, on the other hand, are regarded by the angels as profane because they are contrary to conjugial love; for as in marriages the angels behold the marriage of good and truth, which is heaven, so in adulteries they behold the marriage of falsity and evil, which is hell. If, then, they but hear adulteries mentioned they turn away. And this is why heaven is closed up to man when he commits adultery from delight; and when heaven is closed, man no longer acknowledges the Divine nor anything of the faith of the Church.# That all who are in hell are antagonistic to conjugial love I have been permitted to perceive from the sphere exhaling therefrom, which was like an unceasing endeavour to dissolve and violate marriages; which shows that the reigning delight in hell is the delight of adultery, and the delight of adultery is a delight in destroying the conjunction of good and truth, which conjunction makes heaven. From this it follows that the delight of adultery is an infernal delight directly opposed to the delight of marriage, which is a heavenly delight. # Adulteries are profane (n. 9961, 10174). Heaven is closed to adulterers (n. 2750). Those who have experienced delight in adulteries cannot come into heaven (n. 539, 2733, 2747-2749, 2751, 10175). Adulterees are unmerciful and destitute of religion (n. 824, 2747, 2748). The ideas of adulterers are filthy (n. 2747, 2748). In the other life they love filth and are in filthy hells (n. 2755, 5394, 5722). In the Word "adulteries" signify adulterations of good, and "whoredoms" perversions of truth (n. 2466, 2729, 3399, 4865, 8904, 10648).