948. There is also another tun on the left, as it seems to those who are there. In it there are certain spirits who during their lifetime had imagined that when they did evil they were doing good, and vice versa. Thus they had made good consist in evil. They stay in that place for some time, during which they are deprived of rationality. Having been deprived in this way they are like people asleep, and whatever they do at that time they are not held responsible for it. To themselves however they seem to be awake. When their rationality has been restored to them they become themselves once again and are as other spirits.

2. But that every single detail, even the smallest, down to the tiniest jot, means and embodies matters that are spiritual and celestial is a truth of which the Christian world is still profoundly ignorant, and for that reason it pays insufficient attention to the Old Testament. Nevertheless they are able to know this truth from the single consideration that because the Word is the Lord's and derives from Him, it cannot possibly exist if it does not contain within itself such things as belong to heaven, the Church, and faith. If this were not so it could not be called the Word of the Lord nor be said to have any life within it. For where does its life originate except in those things which belong to life, that is, in having every single detail go back to the Lord, who is life itself? Therefore anything that does not interiorly focus on Him has no life; indeed any expression in the Word that fails to embody Him within itself, or does not in its own way go back to Him, is not Divine.