3375. How the human race was afterwards turned upside down
Thus I was shown that they worked only into the right part of the head, that is, through desires, toward the left side of the chest, that is, fantasies issuing from desires (thus not fantasies apart from desires); thus were not operating out of principles of knowledge, which are highly persuasive, but pouring in dreadful persuasions at the same time, and then deadening the mental images of a person on earth or a spirit just as ice deadens one's members, driving away all the warmth of goodness and truth.