It has been shown by actual experience that the life of spirits after death can be such that bodily life cannot be compared to it-indeed, by the experience that in one mental image there was as much light and life as in a thousand, and more, of bodily life. And so it was shown that the life of the body with its mental images is so dark that in comparison they are only night. For it is the bodily and sensual elements of the body that bring on the darkness, and persuade that the life of the body is life.