After life in the body, since life-like fantasies continue by which their inward qualities show themselves, therefore they who are violent and oppressors of their fellow man, no matter what the driving passion, are tormented in hell in the following way. With the greatest eagerness, they take those whom they fantasize that they are seizing, and tear them apart, slaughter them, chop them up with an axe, and torment them in a thousand different ways. Those who are bloodthirsty derive the greatest joy from blood, and the greater the torture, the greater is their enjoyment, which is held out to be so great among them that they say it surpasses all enjoyments. But then these in turn are exposed to the same torment by their companions, who are thereby, in their turn, gladdened in the same way, even until the former have been so tormented, and for such a long time, that they desist; and because a dread of retaliation seizes them, that enjoyment at length passes away, and so they are finally rid of it. 1747, the 24th day of December. * 390 is lacking in the original.