1297. Whilst he was at liberty in the heaven of spirits, and yet still in the society of his own infernals, namely, of those who killed guiltless persons by poison, he diffused a poisonous sphere, so that the spirits there were, as it were, inflated by whatever he did, causing them to think differently. They also bewailed this, for he breathed into everyone something of his own hatred, so that he secretly perverted their good into evil. His sphere was such that without reflection being given he did not know that it went forth from him and thus infilled the sphere of the spirits around me, and also myself. He was delighted with this, because in this way he also became great and, as it were, commanding.