Many who had been great in bodily life, either by the dignity of their office or their imagined scholarship, carry with them into the other life the haughty spirit they had acquired in the life of the body, and suppose that they are greater and more outstanding than the rest. For this remains with very many and is a great impediment to their coming into societies, where no such thing prevails, but where they love each other mutually as brothers, nor does one put himself above the other in dignity or learning, as I have been amply shown by experience. So I was prompted to tell them, and at the same time to discern clearly by a spiritual mental image, that there is no respect of persons in the other life, and the most lowly lad of a country person of the lowest sort can be in much greater regard than a prince among the greatest.