5391. There are also kidneys which are called the Subsidiary Kidneys and also the Renal Capsules. The function of these is not so much to separate fluid as actual blood, sending the purer blood by a short route round to the heart, thus ensuring that neighbouring spermatic vessels do not take away all the purer blood. But their chief work is performed in embryos and also new-born babies. Chaste virgins are the ones who constitute that province in the Grand Man; easily given to anxious feelings and fearful of being disturbed, they lie quietly on the lower left side of the body. If I think about heaven or about a change in their state, they become anxious and sigh, as I have been allowed to detect plainly on several occasions. When my thoughts turned to young children those virgins felt a significant comfort and an inner joy, to which they openly bore witness. Also whenever my thought has dwelt on something unheavenly, they have again experienced anxious feelings. Those feelings stem primarily from the fact that those virgins have an innate disposition to keep their minds fixed on one particular concern and not get rid of those anxious feelings by turning to other matters. They belong to that province because by behaving in this way they can fix another's mind constantly on certain particular thoughts, as a consequence of which a succession of such matters as must be taken away from a person and from which he must be purified emerge and reveal themselves. In this way too interior things are made more evident to the angels, for once such things as cause obscurity and divert their attention are removed, clearer vision and influx result.