1492. When at length they have been detected, and they are permitted to exercise their deadly hatreds, it becomes evident not only what they are like, but also what is the nature of their hatreds. For they are sent into companies of similar spirits who direct their hatreds, and it thence appears whether their hatred is greater or less from their animus resisting or consenting, when they are compelled to say or do such things. This is quite clearly perceived by those present.
1492 1/2. They are afterwards punished according to the quality and degree of their hatred, breathing forth revenge. The first punishment usually is that they are let downwards into the lower regions of the earth. It appears as though through a darksome hole they were let down into the earth to a great depth, thus as if to its center and even beyond, according to the degree of the hatred. For some of them are so delighted with revenge of a dreadful nature - as you may see above [nos. 1488-1490 - that they place therein the delights of their life which cannot easily be extinguished. But in the other life there are never lacking the kinds of punishments answering to every single crime.
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