3192. Perverse loves still have their origin from true ones
About these I spoke with spirits, such as perverse marital love, adulteries, whoredoms, these cannot exist but from true marriage love, but which falls into the perverse, and becomes such. Even the love toward children, when it is in the perverse, is likewise on account of evil motives. Then there are those who seek immortality, and do not care for life, for the sake of fame, and many other cases. 1748, 19 Sept.
3192. THAT YET PERVERTED LOVES DERIVE THEIR ORIGIN FROM TRUE LOVE.
I spoke concerning these, with spirits [saying] to wit, that perverted conjugial, adulterous [and] meretricious loves cannot exist, except from true conjugial love, but that it falls into the perverted, and becomes so: and it is similar with love towards children, when it is in the perverse, it is directed [propter] to evil ends. Also [it is similar with those] who seek immortality and do not care for life, because of fame [reputation] and [so with] very many other things. - 1748, September 19.
3192. Quod amores perversi originem usque ducant a veris
De his cum spiritibus loquutus, sicut amor conjugialis perversus, adulteria 1
, meretricatus, non existere possunt nisi a vero amore conjugiali, sed qui incidit in perversos, et ita fit, etiam amor erga liberos similiter, dum est in perversis est propter fines malos: tum qui quaerunt immortalitatem nec curant vitam famae causa, et perplura alia. 1748, 19 Sept.;
(3193.) et 2
porro cum iis loquutus, quod similiter se habeat, ac bonum a coelo, in malum vertitur in mundo spirituum malorum, et quidem secundum cujusvis naturam: et adhuc manifestius, vita Domini influit in omnes, et usque in mundo spirituum malorum ita pervertitur ut non aliquod vestigium vitae animadvertatur, et quidem cum indefinita varietate, in obscuro isto non apparet quicquam, et quidem iis, qui talibus delectantur, apparet ut vitae jucundum, sic ut nesciant annon id vita, cum tamen est externum ita separatum ab internis. 1748, 19 Sept. Agnoverunt hoc spiritus, et videbant quod ita esset.
Footnotes:
1. in J.F.I. Tafel's edition adulterii sed cf. indicem ad Adulteria et Conjugium
2. The Manuscript has Sept. et