1276. I suppose that he is like this when deprived of his rationality, because he seemed to me to be speechless, like a mass or a stump, in which those hatreds were thus simmering. Therefore mucus, in the spiritual sense, symbolizes tenacious hatreds. Later it was also discovered that he was not like this outwardly. Then he was quite easy to get along with, but at the time when he was thinking and his thought was full of those hatreds, they did not show in his outermost appearance, with which he was anxious to please the world.