LXVIII. De jioena hominum mendncium.

LXVIII. De jioena hominum mendncium.

And I saw a fire burning entirely in a blackness, where dragons lay, breathing their flames upon the same fire. And next to that fire, a river of very cold water was flowing; the same dragons sometimes entered it and stirred it all up. But both the fire and the river had an air of fire above them, which touched the same fire and river with its heat. The souls of those who gathered the vice of deceit in this world without oath or perjury were tormented in fire and water; so much so that they passed from the heat of the fire into the cold of that water, and from that same water into the same fire, where the aforementioned dragons also afflicted them; but this fiery air did not harm them, only those with the aforementioned torments, which they had brought upon themselves through deceit in their bodies by means of oaths and perjuries. For since they had spoken many lies in their bodies, they suffered this fire; and because they had a desire for the depth of their being, they were tormented by the cold of this water; and since they had accumulated these things here and there, they were punished by these dragons; and because they had spoken many lies through oaths and perjury, they were burned in that fiery air above. And I saw and understood these things. And again, I heard a voice from the living light saying to me: "What you see is true, and as you see it, so it is, and there is more to it."