875. All this leads me to conclude that it is spirits like these who constitute the province of the seminal vessels, where the good seed gathers, together with the liquid it combines with so that it will be fit to be emitted, and later broken down in the neck of the womb; for the seminal vessels store up this substance. His desire to go to heaven indicates his desire for regeneration, or to enter the womb so that he can be reborn a new man. In spite of his having this kind of outer form, it is by virtue of the inner form that he longs for, or desires outwardly, nothing but heaven; and it is for this reason that he was able to arouse pity. Such a desire is indeed characteristic of the particles contained in the seminal vessel.