1449. The inhabitants of Venus on the side looking this way are almost in despair regarding their salvation, saying that they are wild animals, brutes, abominations, hatreds-not that they actually kill people, but that they are hatreds against their neighbors, and therefore damned, and cannot be saved. While undergoing this purging process, they also utter damning expressions against heaven, and salvation, because they are desperate. I have now and then experienced this, thinking it was caused by infernal furies, whereas it was from those who are in this kind of despair. But in their case this is overlooked, as they are at such a time as if insane. But the Lord so tempers them that they do not go farther with those vituperations than certain limits, so that they may be saved. When they have gone to extremes, reaching the limit of suffering, then they are saved, because then their bodily elements have died. It is said that those from this side of the planet Venus now being spoken of had not been evil, but simple. They had not believed in the Lord Himself, but in some Supreme Creator without any designation, or without the Lord, the Mediator. So those of this type on the planet Venus are purged in this way, and then saved as soon as they have been taught that the Lord Alone is the Mediator and Savior. They have now confessed that without God as intercessor, they cannot possibly be saved, because they are filthy, and unworthy. Then some of them, who had suffered the extremes, were raised up into heaven and received there, and indeed with a tenderness so great that they drew a tear from my eyes, declaring themselves unworthy for having uttered those words, besides other things they had thought; and they drew tears.