I spoke with spirits just now and on other occasions, saying that the difference between life in the body and life after death is mainly that in the life of the body, a person can speak something, while feeling and thinking otherwise. This is evident from people's conversations, from letters, from various writings, from praises variously embellished, when yet the thought entirely disagrees. Sometimes things are known to be quite the opposite, yet are maintained. But in the other life, this does not exist. There the thoughts speak, consequently the inward person, just as my thought has been speaking all the time now for more than three years: if even one word were said that disagrees with the thought, it is at once perceived. So those who do this due to their life in the body, are known at once, especially by inward spirits, with whom there is a still deeper speech, namely that of the intentions. Therefore some were very indignant who during their bodily life had not liked to have their thoughts be exposed, as a consequence of which hatreds, envies and the like are at once out in the open. So one can tell what a society of these could be like, if they were such on earth as to be enemies at heart, and friends on the face. 1748, 26 Aug.