919. After life the lot of these spirits is restless. They can have no peace. Moreover, they are troublesome to others, and so by suitable anxieties must by all means be reduced into better states.
919 1/2. Those of whom we have treated are spirits of a middle sort, between the good lymph of the brain and the excrementitious. Those who relate to the excrementitious fluids are spirits who draw spiritual truths down to things earthly and there so defile them, that they terminate in things filthy, as is now shown me. These are in front at a distance higher up, at the right side of the nose. They take spiritual and celestial truths and draw them down to filthy earthly things.
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