391. CONCERNING THE TORMENT OF THOSE WHO USE VIOLENCE AGAINST OTHERS, AND HENCE REJOICE IN OPPRESSING: THUS CONCERNING THOSE OF WHOM BLOOD, VIOLENCE, AND OPPRESSION ARE PREDICATED Because corresponding phantasies remain after the life of the body, and their interiors are then laid open, therefore those who are violent and oppressors of the neighbor from cupidity of any kind, are so tormented in hell, that with the greatest cupidity, those whom they take by phantasy, they tear in pieces, slay, cut with an axe, and torment in a thousand other ways. With those who are blood-thirsty, and especially delight in blood, the greater the torment [they inflict] the greater the delight, which with them is declared to be so great, that they say it exceeds all delights. But these are in their turn exposed to similar torments by their companions, who thereby are made glad in like manner, and they are tormented in this way, and for so long, even until they desist; and since the horror of retaliation takes possession of them, that delight at length perishes; thus they are finally devastated. 1747, Dec. 24.