126. Those who have lascivious thoughts in the life of the body, and twist anything others say, even holy things, into lasciviousness, these do not desist from thinking and speaking in this way in the other life; and since there their thoughts are shared, so that they emerge as obscene representations causing offence, their punishment is in front of the spirits they have injured to be stretched out horizontally and rotated at high speed like a cylinder from left to right; and then crosswise in another plane, and then in another. They suffer this naked in the sight of all, or half-naked, depending on the nature of. their lasciviousness, and at the same time they are smitten with shame. Then they are revolved head over heels about a transverse axis; this induces a reaction and pain at the same time,* for there are two forces acting, one circular and one backwards; this causes a painful pulling apart.

N.B. N.B. For more on this subject see in the first extracts under adultery, prostitute, lasciviousness, marriage. Also in the collected passages from the ARCANA COELESTIA. Especially from the collected passages on the Revelation, and in the extracts from the work on HEAVEN AND HELL, as also from the remainder. * This clause appears twice in the Latin.