§80 god the creator & creation 115
He was given recollection and he remembered. Then he felt ashamed
and shouted, “I am insane! I saw heaven above and heard angels saying
ineffable things, but it happened when I had just arrived here. Now I am
going to remember this and go tell it to the colleagues I left behind. Per-
haps they will be as embarrassed as I was.”
He kept saying over and over that he would call his colleagues insane,
but as he went down, oblivion drove the memory away. When he arrived
below he became as insane as they were, and called what he had heard
from me insanity.
This shows how satans think and talk after death. People who have
made falsity so strong in themselves that it becomes their belief are called
“satans.” People who have made evil strong in themselves by living it are
called “devils.”