Among other things, there is also this reason why spirits are deprived of their bodily memory, i.e., that it is their own, from it they think they lead their own life. Then also, if they had use of that memory, the perfections of the state of spirits spoken of elsewhere [see 1077, 1983] could scarcely be given, namely, [the ability] to perceive thoughts by a spiritual mental image, besides very many other [faculties]. So people lose nothing but flesh and bones, and the use of that memory. They keep all of it, yet they are not permitted to use it, but an inward one, which is, so to speak, the inward ability of drawing forth and contemplating the particulars of the bodily memory. 1748, 29 Aug.