441. The delights of conjugial love, on the other hand, have nothing in common with the foul delights of licentious love. The latter are inherent, indeed, in every person's flesh, but they are separated and removed as a person's spirit is elevated above the sensual promptings of the body, and as from a height it sees the shams and fallacies of these below. He likewise then perceives fleshly delights first as illusory and deceptive delights, after that as lustful and lascivious ones to be shunned, and progressively as harmful and injurious to the soul, until at last he feels them as undelightful, foul, and repulsive. Moreover, in the degree that he perceives and feels those delights as such, in the same degree he perceives the delights of conjugial love as harmless and chaste, and finally as delightful and blessed. The delights of conjugial love become also delights of the spirit in the flesh for the reason that after the delights of licentious love have been removed (as described just above), the spirit, now freed of them, enters into the body chaste, filling the breast with the delights of its blessedness, and from the breast, also the ultimate expressions of that love in the body. Thus the spirit afterward acts in full partnership with those ultimate expressions, and they with the spirit.