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We're starting a 3-week series on complaining. When we're trying to grow spiritually, it is okay to complain to God and ask for His help so we can enjoy giving up things we love.

(références: Arcana Coelestia 8165, 8413; Exodus 2:23-25, 14:11-13, 15:23-25, 16:2-4, 17:1-6)

346. [339.] On Marriage and Adultery

1) Show by many considerations, and also from personal experience, that adultery is hell itself, thus the devil himself and satan, that all in hell are adulterers, that they rave like madmen when they perceive the presence of married love ¹ . That it is a sign spirits are from hell that they desire to violate chaste marriages, and more. Further, that they are caught up in a marriage of evil and falsity.

2) That marriage is heaven itself, because all there live in a state of married love, ¹ each in his own degree. That that love is the fundamental love of all the loves of heaven, because by it an angel becomes an embodiment of love, because those who are there possess a marriage of good and truth. And that therefore heaven is likened to marriage and a wedding, ² and hell to adultery and licentious liaisons.

3) From this it follows that to the extent a person detests adultery as a diabolical sin and looks to the Lord, to the same extent he is in heaven, in a similar degree.

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