386. THAT THOSE WHO INDULGE IN LASCIVIOUS PRACTICES IN LIKE MANNER SEEM TO THEMSELVES TO BE IN SUBTERRANEAN PLACES Those who have loved a lascivious life, acting lasciviously in a clandestine manner, likewise seem to themselves to pass their time in subterranean places, as in cells furnished with candles, and indeed with such things as are of their lascivious license in concealment; for phantasies reign when they depart this life, and are turned into similar things. But even they also are infested according to the degree and end of their lasciviousnesses, as if by dormice, and by filthy insects of a kind similar to the things which have been inwardly within their lascivious ends; and although indeed they do not know that their ends had been such, they are nevertheless then made manifest by filthy insects and like things, even until they abstain from them. For a soul is taught, at first by means of phantasies, by which they are gradually turned away. Thus in place of pleasure they are allotted direful phantasies, which afterwards take possession of them until at length they so abhor such pleasures that they desire nothing of them any longer; so that finally they are averse to them, indeed abhor them. It thus takes place according to the ends, or the latent loves. 1747, Dec. 24.