1015. CONCERNING GYRES There are gyres into which souls must be inaugurated, and this, in order that they may be in the company of others, so that they may not only speak with them, but also think, and finally think aright, or that which is true and good.* There are many such inaugurations, as many indeed as are the agitations of the serum and blood in the human body. There are also many genera and species and likewise degrees thereof. The lowest degree is only to enable them to be together with those in the gyres; into these gyres the evil also can be introduced, so that they may be made fit to be present in similar gyres. As is the case with man, evil spirits can speak and feel as well as the good, and this is effected in a two-fold manner, by gyrations alone, and by a compulsion of their speech, so that it may agree with the thought, as was said. * Crossed out: "Wherefore they are at first inaugurated into gyres, which are the fundamentals."
1015 1/2. There are degrees of such agitations and inaugurations, and these degrees are represented in the body. In regard to the blood, they are represented by the agitation of the blood in the gall-bladder, by its agitation in the liver whence is the hepatic bile, and by its agitation outside the biliferous pores, when the lymph together with the purer blood is being carried into the lymphatic vessels.
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