2673. Such is the life that is in them, and when they become used to such a life, they not only suppose that no other light of life exists, preferring it to the real light, but they also prefer the pleasure they have from it above heavenly happiness, because they do not see otherwise than that it is that happiness-just as worms in their darkness consider it to be the highest light and pleasure. I was also prompted to portray to them what their life would be by the withdrawal of pleasure from that life. This was done by a spiritual mental image, in which there lingered before them something foul, extremely ugly, concordant with the quality of that life. And such do they become in the other life when the pleasure of that life is taken from them. Then they are effigies of death, so ugly that the ugliness cannot be described to anyone.