4563. CONCERNING THE HELL OF ADULTERERS. ((The hell of adulterers is under the buttocks. Those there are in excrements. They continually endeavor to roll themselves out thence for they desire more than others to come into the world, because they have also been such as loved mundane and corporeal things above everything else. In a certain night, while awake, there appeared there an egurgitation and rising up, as occurs with ashes under which are live coals and firebrands. A mass of them threw themselves forth with smoke. I wondered what it could signify: And also it struck a warm sensation to the cauda* and back part of the loins. It was said that that hell is in the continual endeavor to thus project itself.)) * The allusion seems to be to the bunch of nerve-roots called the cauda equina, which is situated at the extremity of the spinal column.