3137. First he came to those who showed him every kindness, so that they would live delightfully among themselves, performing services to each other, having such a life as their goal. Thus their life would be a sweet one, a pretense of friendship on account of pleasant associations. There at first he said he had found others with whom he could live, but I was shown that they were inward magicians, charmers and the like, who are sent there at first when they come from the life of the body so that those kinds of things may be recalled, and then be purged. I was shown what they were by an angelic gaze into the spirits of this kind. There appeared thin intestines, also bloody, whence I was given to know that such spirits are there behind, at a distance, who indulge in things of this kind so as to live for the only goal, to enjoy the pleasant life. And they suppose that they love one another, but the goal shows what the love is like. In the other life they are also devoted to magical arts, divinations and the like.