5381. Those who constitute the province of the kidneys, ureters, and bladder in the Grand Man are by nature such that there is nothing they like more than to explore and examine closely other people's characters. They are also ones who wish to correct and punish, provided that such an action is at all justly warranted. The functions of the kidneys, ureters, and bladder are also like this, for they explore the blood attracted into them to discover any useless or harmful fluid there. This they separate from what is useful and then purify it; for they send it down to lower parts, harrying it both on the way down and by various methods when it gets there. Such are the functions of those who constitute the province incorporating those parts. But the spirits and communities of spirits to which actual urine, especially stinking urine, corresponds are hellish ones. For as soon as the urine has been separated from the blood, even though still in the tubules of the kidneys or else held in the bladder, it is nevertheless outside the body, since what has been separated no longer circulates around the body and does not therefore contribute in any way to the continuing existence of its parts.