121. There was a certain spirit at a middling height who in bodily life had lived lasciviously, taking pleasure in variety, so that he loved no woman constantly, but spent his time in brothels, and thus committed fornication with many women, whom he afterwards rejected one by one. By this means it came about that he extinguished all desire for marriage and acquired an unnatural nature. All these things were exposed, and when he attempted similar tricks in the spiritual world, he was severely punished, and this in full view of angels, and then cast into a hell which is such that there appears there as it were scum ¹ such as on the surface of seas; these are nasal mucus and almost devoid of life, because they have destroyed everything human, because they have destroyed everything of heaven, which is based upon conjugial love.

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2746. There was a certain spirit fairly high up overhead who during his lifetime had lived licentiously and had delighted in variety, so that he did not love one woman constantly but frequented brothels. Thus he had fornicated with many, each of whom he had rejected after going with her. It therefore came about that he had cheated many and that consequently he had annihilated the desire for marriage, and even the desire to beget children, and so had acquired an unnatural nature. All these things were disclosed, and then he suffered wretched punishment - these events being witnessed by the angels; and after that he was cast into hell. Concerning the hells of adulterers, see Volume One, in 824-830.