5654. The reason the most malicious are near the northern plane and also further away there is that they become the most stupid of all when purged because the malice in them penetrates all and the least things. As a result, after this they have so little mental life that they are dumb as a post, as they say. It is known that in the border region between the northern and western tract under the mountainous region they are stupid.
5654. That the exceedingly wicked are near the northern quarter, and also remotely there, is because those become the stupidest of all, when vastated; because wickedness, with these, penetrates all and every single one of their interiors. Hence they have afterwards so little intellectual life, that they are as it were logs - as was said. It is known [to me], that, in the confine between the northern and the western tract under the mountainous region, are the stupid.
5654. Quod malitiosissimi prope septentrionalem plagam sint, et quoque longius ibi, est causa, quia illi fiunt omnium stupidissimi, cum vastati, quia malitia apud illos penetravit omnia et singula interiora, inde illis postea tam parum vitae intellectualis, ut sint sicut stipites ut dicitur; notum est quod in confinio inter tractum septentrionalem et occidentalem sub montano sint stupidi.