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HAT the ruling affection or dominant love remains with every one to eternity, was shown in the preceding chapter; but that the delights of that affection or love are turned into corresponding delights, is now to be shown. By being turned into corresponding delights, is meant into spiritual ones which correspond to natural. That these are turned into spiritual delights in the other world, may be evident from the fact that so long as man is in the natural world he is in a terrestrial body: but when he leaves that body he enters the spiritual world and puts on [or there has] a spiritual body.

All the delights which man enjoys are those of his ruling love; for he feels nothing to be delightful except what he loves. Consequently that which he loves supremely, is in the highest degree delightful. It amounts to the same, whether we say the ruling love, or that which is loved above all things.

These delights are various. There are in general as many as there are ruling loves, and therefore as many as there are men, spirits, and angels,—for the