576. Furthermore, they go about, asking among all whom they meet whether they would like to give them something to make them warm. When they receive something, and indeed, something of warmth from others, even this does nothing for them. For they are trying to obtain an inner warmth, not the outer warmth they get from others; and they finally become so afraid and sick of the others' warmth, that they go back to their sawing, to acquire warmth for themselves. Their coldness also, I have felt, which is very intense, and they could not bear it if I either warmed myself at the fire, or warmed my feet with shoes, or anything of that kind.
576 1/2. Moreover, they are always hoping they are to be carried up into heaven because they have done good deeds in their life, even deliberating how they could force their own way, or lift themselves up, into heaven. But it is in vain, for they still become cold.
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