1276. I suppose that he is such since he is deprived of his rationality, for he seemed to me to be mute, and as it were a mass or stock in which those hatreds were thus prepared. Mucus, therefore, in the spiritual sense signifies tenacious hatreds. It was also disclosed later that this spirit was not such in externals, being then more easily dealt with; but when he was thinking in such a manner that his thought was filled with such hatreds, his outermost was not like this, for he thereby applied himself to the world.