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 as filthy, one to another, as they appear before the angels."

The abodes of these evil spirits and the objective world about them are also produced, as in the case of angels, from their own affections and thoughts.

Behold how they appeared to an eye-witness who lived consciously in both worlds at the same time:

"The hells appear, some like dens and caverns, some like great chasms and whirlpools, some like bogs and others like lakes of water. They are not opened except when evil spirits (once men) from the world of spirits are cast in thither. When they are opened, there is an exhalation from them, either like that of fire and smoke, such as appears in the air from buildings on fire, or like mists and thick clouds. I have been told that the infernal spirits neither see those things nor are sensible of them, because they are in their own atmosphere and thus in the delight of their own life."

"Some hells appeared like caverns in rocks tending inward and downward; some like dens which wild beasts inhabit in forests; some like arched caverns and holes such as are seen in mines.