1763. When souls having such defects come into the world of spirits-for they are able to slip in before it has become plain what they are like-they cannot be tolerated. They would infect a multitude of spirits along with themselves. For this reason they first undergo the following punishment: several of them together are rotated around from the left to the right, at first in a flat orbit, which gradually swells during the spinning. Next, that lump-like orbit is pressed down and becomes a hollow, while the speed is increased. In the meantime, while spinning around they are examined to see whether they are persisting in being like they are. The rotation takes place in the world of spirits overhead, a little toward the front, and was applied to spirits of that character. And because they persisted, they were rolled around and hurled behind, under the back of the head. But a different spinning process also occurred, in which the lump-like orbit was raised up quite high, then bent into a hook, and that hook was likewise rolled up; thus it was a mixed rolling. The orbit was even turned around to a perpendicular plane, the speed also being increased, even until it appeared solid due to the speed, thus imitating those kinds of abscessed lumps.
1763 1/2. Later it was shown how such spirits lie as if dead, on their face and belly. Then they were let down into the lower parts of the earth, to pass their life there. So they were thrust out of the world of spirits, consequently out of the body, into the lower parts of the earth to lead a most obscure life there, without companions. For then they are as if dead.
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