1097. It is characteristic of the heavenly [angels] to say nothing, but only to signal their thoughts, or what is within themselves by communicating with one's face. On it, they superinduce the same faces as they have, so that the person's face can feel the other faces upon it quite clearly, just as I twice felt another face induced upon me, and it was said in their own way of speaking that it was the faces of those heavenly ones seated at my head; so there were two faces. This is how they learn whether a person has died or not. For if their induced faces are recognized as theirs, then they know that the person is dead.