9724. 'And shovels, and basins, and its forks, and its tongs' means known facts that act as containers and serve every purpose. This is clear from the meaning of vessels generally as the items of knowledge or known facts that the external memory possesses, dealt with in 3068, 3069, and - in regard to things of a holy nature - as the cognitions of good and truth which serve as means by which to worship the Lord, 9544. Such also is what the vessels for ministry around the altar mean. But each particular vessel there means the known facts that relate to some specific purpose, so that all the vessels there mean the known facts that serve every purpose.

2752. Those who have become eaten up with adultery wish more than all others in the next life to possess persons [in this world], and through these to come back into the world. But they are detained by the Lord in hell, to prevent them coming among those spirits who reside with men. The majority of those who are such come from the Christian world, rarely from other parts.