to them by those who are there, that they have heard what ear has never heard. [6] Those that have not acted in secret ways, but have been willing to have all that they have thought made known so far as civil life would permit, because their thoughts have all been in accord with what is honest and just from the Divine-these in heaven have faces full of light; and in that light every least affection and thought is seen in the face as in its form, and in their speech and actions they are like images of their affections.  Such, therefore, are more loved than others.  While they are speaking the face becomes a little obscured; but as soon as they have spoken, the things they have said become plainly manifest all at once in the face.  And as all the objects that exist round about them correspond to their interiors, these assume such an appearance that others can clearly perceive what they represent and signify.  Spirits that have found delight in clandestine acts, when they see such at a distance flee from them, and appear to themselves to creep away from them like serpents. [7] Those that have regarded adulteries as abominable, and have lived in a chaste love of marriage, are more than all others in the order and form of heaven, and therefore in all beauty, and continue unceasingly in the flower of youth.  The delights of their love are ineffable, and increase to eternity; for all the delights and joys of heaven flow into that love, because that love descends from the conjunction of the Lord with heaven and with the church, and in general from the conjunction of good and truth, which conjunction is heaven itself in general, and with each angel in particular (see above, n. 366-386).  What their outward delights are it is impossible to describe in human words.  These are only a few of the things that have been told me about the correspondences of the delights of those that are in heavenly love.

{Footnote 1} In the Word a “field of corn” signifies a state of the reception and growth of truth from good (n. 9294).  “Standing corn” signifies truth in conception (n. 9146), “Vineyards” signify the spiritual church and the truths of that church (n. 1069, 9139).  “Precious stones” signify the truths of heaven and of the church transparent from good (n. 114, 9863, 9865, 9868, 9873, 9905).  A “window” signifies the intellectual faculty which pertains to the internal sight (n. 655, 658, 3391).

{Footnote 2} A “garden,” a “grove,” and a “park,” signify intelligence (n. 100, 108, 3220).  This is why the ancients celebrated holy worship in groves (n. 2722, 4552).  “Flowers” and “flower beds” signify truths learned and knowledges (n. 9553).  “Herbs,” “grasses,” and “grass plots” signify truths learned (n. 7571).  “Trees” signify perception and knowledges (n. 103, 2163, 2682, 2722, 2972, 7692).

490.  All this makes evident that everyone’s delights are changed after death into their correspondences, while the love itself continues to eternity.  This is true of marriage love, of the love of justice, honesty, goodness and truth, the love of sciences and of knowledges, the love of intelligence and wisdom, and the rest.  From these loves delights flow like streams from their fountain; and these continue; but when raised from natural to spiritual delights they are exalted to a higher degree.