2615. When I had woken up, as said, in wakefulness I saw a kind of vat or threshing vessel such as vegetables are ground in, and by it there stood a man with a tool, who was packing into that vat human flesh. He was packing human beings into that vat, torturing and then killing them-throwing people into the vessel and beating them, as if they were vegetables to be mashed.

The man was doing this with great pleasure, and his pleasure was transferred by a method of communication that exists in the spiritual world, so that I would learn that he was committing this crime with the greatest pleasure. This was an opposite or hellish pleasure, and because it was opposite to the former, heavenly one, a dog appeared, so that they would be entirely kept apart and have nothing in common, or no communication.