3098. Some of those with me were raised up there who doubted whether there was light in the other life as there is in the life of the body, also whether there is a life higher than that life which is of the body. So they were raised up into paradisal societies, and they are still there; and from there they spoke with me. But before they can be lifted up there, they are prepared by the Lord, that they may be of one mind. Therefore others who desired it were not able to be brought up, for their mental images were not concordant, nor were they willing to be touched in such a way that they could be moderated* by the ideas of others. * The verb in the ms. is "could bend," in singular, where "could be bent" in the plural seems to be intended.