4761. [4789] CONCERNING THOSE WHO ARE STRONG IN INTELLIGENCE, BUT WHO HAVE LED A BAD LIFE There was a certain one whom I knew in the life of the body [Pastor Arnel]. He, when alive, was endowed with the gift of ingenuity, which also he retained in the other life, when I spoke with him. But it was perceived that he was among the deceitful, as he had woven deceits in the life of the body; and so, loving self and the world, neither had he led a good life, nor believed anything about a life after death. He was among the ingenious and deceitful in a certain hell. He supposed, that, since he could understand truths, and well discern them, he could have been saved; but the angels replied, that such were in outward form like beautiful women, but filthy and swarming [with vileness] inwardly, and like those who give out a foul odor, no matter how they appear outwardly; so that, if he should come into a heavenly society, he could not have been endured on account of the noisome odor: for the intellectual has beauty, but the life a stench.