1014. The vexation is like that of being forced to speak faster than one is thinking. For newly-arrived spirits normally speak like people on earth, but here they are forced to speak faster by these vexing spirits, who first more or less pull their speaking away from their thinking, until the thinking is forced to follow. This causes pain and annoyance, until the spirit becomes accustomed to it. Then he is introduced into a faster and faster speaking, and at the same time, into spiral motions-for after a while, this agitation is produced by means of such gyres, at first rather slow ones, afterwards faster.
1014 1/2. But the kind of spirits who are sent here, as said before [1013], are those who scorn spiritual and heavenly qualities, or piety. 1748, 26 February.
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