10. [10.] In the spiritual world, images and many other things can be formed from mental ideas and be presented to sight, a phenomenon peculiar to that world. Therefore these same English priests set themselves to forming an image in the likeness of a person in accordance with the ideas of their thought regarding faith alone or faith separated from charity; and when the image was completed, it appeared monstrous, so that it was not unlike Dagon, the idol of the Philistines in Ashdod, on which account it was cast into a certain lake.* * See also no. [213] below.