The hells of the men of the Noachian, or Ancient Church, consist for the most part of magicians, who have huts and feasting places scattered up and down in the desert. They wander about there with rods in their hands, which are of various forms, and some of them steeped in magical juices. By these, as in former times, they practise their arts, which are effected by the abuse of correspondences, by fantasies, by persuasive assurances by which was engendered a faith based on miracles-and miracles were in time past performed; also, by exorcisms, incantations, witchcrafts and sorceries, and many other magical spells, by which they present illusory appearances as real. The supreme delight of their heart is to utter prophecies and prognostications, and to act the Python. From these, chiefly, have arisen the various fanaticisms in the Christian world.