1013. They are those who during their life utterly despise whatever is pious, that is, whatever is celestial and spiritual, thus the life thereof. Indeed, they so despise it that they treat it with insults, either within themselves or even openly, each in his own way. These are the spirits who are sent into this province of the gall-bladder at the back, or are urged thither without their knowing where they are flowing.
1013 1/2. A certain spirit came to me, inquiring whether I knew where he could stay. I considered him to be upright, as I gathered from his speech, and when I said that he could stay here, he was content. The vexatious spirits of this province accosted and miserably annoyed him, so that I grieved and wanted to stop them; but they persisted, and I could not stop them. I was thus instructed that I was then in the province of the gall-bladder.
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