144. Since a love of ruling stemming from a love of self is altogether opposed to love toward the Lord, therefore spirits who are prompted by that love of ruling turn their face in the opposite direction from the Lord, and so look with their eyes to the west in their world. Moreover, because they are in body turned around in a contrary direction, to their rear is the east, to their right the north, and to their left the south. They have the east to their rear because they hate the Lord. They have the north to their right because they love fallacious ideas and consequent falsities. And they have the south to their left because they disdain the light of wisdom. They can turn around and around, but all the sights that they see surrounding them appear to their love the same. These spirits are all sensually natural, and some are of such a character as to believe that they alone are alive, regarding others as phantoms. They believe they are wiser than all others, even though they are insane.