825. On a level with the soles of the feet, in front and at quite some distance, is a hell called Gehenna where there are shameless women who have centred all their joy in committing adultery, and have imagined committing adultery to be not only permissible but also honourable. And under the pretence of what is honourable they have seduced guiltless and innocent people into such practices. In that place a fiery glow appears like that which normally radiates from the sky when there is a great fire. It is a fierce heat too, which I have been allowed to feel through the warmth issuing from it on to my face. And it gives off a stench like that given off by burning bones and hair. This hell is sometimes changed into dreadful serpents that bite them, at which point they long to die, but cannot. Certain women released from that place came to me and talked of the fierce heat there. They said that when they are allowed to approach any community of good spirits that heat is converted into extreme cold, in which case they experience the alternating extremes of cold and heat, and in this way are tortured mercilessly. Nevertheless they have intervening periods in which they are obsessed with the passions of their fiery lust. But their states undergo change, as has been mentioned.