436. A SPECIES OF PUNISHMENT BY RUNNING AROUND There are those whom their phantasies punish in this way: namely, they seem to themselves to be running around a circuit backward, or from right to left, or by their phantasies in some other way; and thus as often as they go and return by short enough gyres, they draw something with them which aggravates them. This kind of punishment is for those who suffer themselves to be led by their cupidities, and although they see and acknowledge truths, they nevertheless still return [to their phantasies], being drawn away by their cupidities. Thus they make excursions into the intellectual field, and acknowledge [what they see], but being drawn by their cupidity they return to their repugnances. This is more applicable to women, in whom cupidities usually have predominance, who meddle with those things which concern the doctrines of faith, like men. 1747, Dec. 31.