3.
When these things had been said, I proffered some genuine truths, which, before while he was in externals, he had seen and confirmed; and immediately when he heard them, he turned his eyes inward, acknowledged,
and turned his eyes back again, and with a kind of border of the film which covered the pupil, he absorbed those truths, and injected them into his own fatuous light, and then he called them
falsities; but because this appeared offensive before my sight, and as it were deadly, since in such a manner he slaughtered truths, from which, nevertheless, a man is a man and an angel is an angel,
I abominated his presence; wherefore I turned my face from him; and when I looked back, behold I saw him sinking through a kind of gulf into hell; and because the place where he had stood stank from
him, I went hastily home; for the Divine truth falsified by satans, in the spiritual world, stinks like the filth of the streets.