self, have reference to the vitiated things of the blood, which pervade all the veins and arteries, and contaminate the whole mass.
When hypocrites who discourse holily concerning divine things, with an affection of love concerning the public and their neighbour, testify what is just and equitable, and still have despised those things in their hearts, and have even ridiculed them; when these, I say, have been attendant on me, and they were allowed to flow into the parts of the body to which they correspond from the apposite principle, they injected pain into the teeth, which upon their nearer approach was so severe that I could not endure it; and so far as they were removed, so far the pain ceased, which was shown repeatedly in order to remove all doubt. Among them was one whom I had known during his life in the body, on which account I conversed with him; and in proportion as he was present, so my teeth and gums were affected with pain; when he was lifted upwards to the left, a pain attacked the left jaw, and the bone of the left temple, and penetrated even to the bones of the cheek.
The most contumacious of all are those, who, during their life in the world, appeared more just than others, and were at the same time in appointments of dignity; hence from each source they derived authority and influence, and yet believed nothing, and lived the life of self-love alone, being inflamed with intestine hatred and revenge against all who did not favour them, and pay court to them, and especially against those who in any way opposed them. When they are applied to a man, they induce a great pain by weariness, which they inwardly excite and increase continually, even to the highest degree of impatience, which induces such infirmity in the mind and thence in the body, that the man can scarcely raise himself from his bed. This was shown me by the circumstance, that when they were present, I was seized with the above weakness,
