1 Kings 11:2

Verse 2. Although such evils are opposed to celestial love, and also to the genuine Spiritual Church, so that spiritual good cannot be truly conjoined therewith, nor can these evils be truly conjoined with spiritual good; yet they are either serviceable as means to celestial love, where genuine truths are wanting, as among the Gentiles; or they are the beginning of a corrupted state of the celestial church.