1497. They are, therefore, cast into such a place where they appear to each other like those serpents which are called dragons, and they there live in dreadful phantasies; they do not indeed injure each other, but like such beasts they are as if devoid of rationality. Thus do they remain for ages, until at length their former life is changed, for since the delights of their life consisted in revengefulness, and cannot be extinguished except with their life, they therefore remain such, until they no longer know that they had been men. Thus their former life perishes, although it remains, the faculty of leading another life being superimposed thereon. So long as they are held in this faculty they can be kept among certain types of spirits, but of what quality they then are has not yet been permitted me to know. 1748, Mar. 18.