1210. Such spirits as those spoken of above, in the other life want without conscience to murder their companions and whomsoever they meet. They seem to themselves to be holding an axe, or to have a hammer in their hand, and to smite another spirit who is lying prostrate before them, but not so as to shed blood because they are fearful of their own death; but still without conscience they cruelly strike the one lying prostrate before them. They cannot cast away that instrument from their hand, as they want to do, lest they be seen to be of such a quality, but they are continually kept doing this in order that the ferocity of their animus may appear before spirits and angels.