Souls from among those who had been my acquaintances during their lifetime often confessed that they had never believed that this kind of condition existed in the other life, when they were undergoing so many changes, and so many punishments, and the like. They also confessed they had never believed that those in the life of the body had believed things so false, admitting that the doctrine of faith alone as saving is false; especially so when they [now] observe that there is nothing in themselves, or that they say on their own as if from themselves, that is not criminal, and that only what is from the Lord is good and true. Besides all this, [they said] that almost all of them had never believed that the Lord Jesus Christ rules the universe, both heaven and earth; as well as countless other points which, because they had been unheard of in bodily life, likewise now strike them as incredible. 1748, 1 March.