97. * and like practices. For what this gang is like when, by permission, it is led by such a leader as is spoken of in the paragraphs marked @ @, no one can believe except from actual experience. For they aim at nothing else but to corrupt everything of one's mental landscape and thinking. When the person is absorbed in fantasy, then they really awaken, as if they begin to realize that they themselves are not those people [they are with]. Hence their brutality.
3641. [Exod. 9:] verse 24. By "fire" here is described anger being enkindled, namely, how it mixed itself in with profanities, for we read, "and fire mixing itself in the midst of hail." "Hail" is blasphemous words, but "fire" is that burning feeling which is said to reside "in the midst," that is, within the words. That it does reside within them is noticeable in the speech of an angry person. The process of growing angry, when the angry person is one whose feelings and words spirits see, as they do mine, appears before them no different than
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