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 "How the delights of every one's life are turned into corresponding delights after death, may indeed be known from the science of correspondences; but because that science is not yet generally known, I will illustrate the subject by some examples from experience.

"All those who are in evil, and have confirmed themselves in falsities against the truths of the church, and especially those who have rejected the Word, shun the light of heaven, and betake themselves to subterranean places, which through the openings appear very dark, and to the clefts of rocks, and there hide themselves. And they seek such retreats because they have loved falsities and hated truths for such caverns, and clefts of rocks, and darkness also, correspond to falsities, and light corresponds to truth. It is their delight to dwell in such places, and undelightful to them to dwell in open plains.

"In like manner do those who have taken delight in clandestine and insidious plots, and in the secret contrivance of fraudulent schemes these, too, are in those caverns, and enter into chambers so dark that they cannot even see one another, and there they whisper in each other's ears in corners. This is what the delight of their love is turned into.

"They who have studied the sciences with no other end than to acquire the reputation of learning, and who have not cultivated their rational faculty by means of them, and have taken delight in the things of memory