1070. CONCERNING SCORTATORS WHO BY DECEIT ALLURE VIRGINS TO SCORTATIONS Some men in the world desire nothing more than to allure virgins wherever they are, whether in monasteries, in families with their parents, or elsewhere, and by various ways and blandishments they insinuate themselves and entice them to scortation. Thus they are delighted with variety. Such spirits pertain to the province of the genital members but are outside of it. As souls and spirits, they have like things in mind and also the faculty of insinuating themselves into societies. But after they have insinuated themselves for the first time after the death of the body, they are then recognized because their thoughts are laid open. Such recognition also adheres for reasons which the better spirits and angels know. They then wander about, and wherever they go they are rejected; and if they have insinuated themselves they are expelled and punished, for their blandishments are deceitful. Thus, at length, they are admitted into no societies. These things take place according to the varieties of mind, which varieties are very many, as that they deceive innocent girls and abandon them, that they are delighted with varieties, also, that by their insinuations they likewise want to entice the wives of others away from their husbands and so disrupt conjugial love. Because of such varieties, the genera and species of punishments are many and varied, and the times of vastation in solitary places are longer or shorter. 1748, Feb. 28.