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 speech and action do not flow forth from the thought, but from the love through the thought.

From much experience it has been given me to know that man after death is not his own thought, but that he is his own affection and thence thought, or that he is his own love and thence intelligence; also that after death he puts off all that does not agree with his love; yea, that he successively puts on the face, tone of voice, speech, gestures, and manners of his life's love. Hence it is that the whole heaven is ordered according to all the varieties of the affections of the love of good, and the entire hell according to all the affections of the love of evil.

THE LOVE OF THE SEX REMAINS AFTER DEATH; ALSO CONJUGIAL LOVE.

That the love of the sex remains with man after death, is because a male is then a male and a female a female; and the masculine in the male is masculine in the whole and in every part thereof; in like manner the feminine in the female; and there is something conjunctive in all their minutest particulars. Now because this conjunctive tendency was implanted from creation, and is therefore perpetual, it follows that the one desires and breathes after union with the other. Love considered in itself, is nothing but a desire and thence an effort toward conjunction, and conjugial love toward conjunction into one; for the male and the female were so created that from two they may become as one man,