1107. When the soul is beginning to mix with the spiritual, he is first brought into the company of good spirits who do not as yet know what he is like, and they show him every kindness, as described elsewhere [815]. But when they find out that he is not the kind that can be in their company, he is then welcomed by others, and so his association changes according to the character he has acquired during his life. Finally, the soul comes into a stage of being chastened, about which a great deal has been told elsewhere [244, 363, 392-3, 427, 437, 662, 692, 854, 1039-42].