467. That that sea which is called a lake is the punishment of those who oppose themselves to heavenly truth, and to the one only Mediator Himself, Jesus Christ, follows entirely from the conversion of their phantasy into such a [lake]; for thus that which was supreme is rolled down to the bottom, and those who are such sensibly experience the pains of punishment, for their phantasy which they suppose to be real, also becomes real, and torments them in that way, as you may see from what was before said concerning phantasy. 1748, Jan. 11, o.s.