1492. When they have finally been exposed and permitted to act upon their intense hatreds, and it therefore now appears not only that they are the hating kind, but also what kinds their hatreds are-for they are let into groups of spirits like themselves, who target their hatreds-then it comes to light whether they harbor more, or less hatred, and also whether it was with reluctance that they are compelled to say and do such things, or from a consenting mind. This is seen quite clearly by those present.
1492 1/2. Then, befitting the nature and degree of hatred panting for revenge, they are punished. The first punishment is usually that they are let down below into the lowest parts of the earth, seemingly deep down through a dark hole into the earth, almost to its center, even farther, depending on the degree of hatred. For some take such pleasure in vengeance, and in such dreadful acts of vengeance-as you may see spoken of earlier [1488-90]-that they regard them as the very delights of their life. Therefore, [such burning hatreds] cannot easily be quenched. But in the other life the kinds of punishments answering to each and every crime are never lacking.
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