2246. With such people many, many things are mixed with worldly and bodily witticisms, and pleasing corporeal mental images, which are exceedingly noxious salts mixed in with upright qualities, and with spiritual ones. So punishment is required to separate those salts, and to dispel them, because if they were present (for they keep coming back), then they would destroy the societies. For things are stirred up in societies that are interwoven by the sharp points of cleverness to hurt the neighbor. These are seen by angels at a single glance. 1748, 8 June.