Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 818

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818. Beneath the buttocks there is a frightful hell in which those there seem to strike one another with knives, aiming their knives at others' breasts like avenging spirits. But every time they strike the knife is removed from them. They are people who have hated others so much that they were inflamed to kill them in a cruel manner, and as a consequence acquired such a dreadful character. That hell has been opened up for me, though only slightly on account of their dreadful acts of cruelty, so that I might witness the nature of deadly hatred.


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