1210. The people spoken of here, in the other life try without conscience to kill anyone they meet, even companions. They seem to themselves to be holding a knife, or to have a hammer in their hand, and to be beating another spirit lying on his back in front of them. Yet they do not go as far as shedding blood, because they are afraid of their own death. Nevertheless, without conscience they cruelly strike the spirit lying beneath them on his back, unable to cast that tool out of their hand-which they want to do, so as not to be seen for what they are. But they are constantly kept doing this so that the fierceness of their heart may appear before spirits and angels.