It has sometimes happened that those who had preached heavenly truths in their lifetime and had ardently impressed them upon others, when those truths are demonstrated to them in the other life, that they denied them, because they were in a state of mind to reason about them-such as that the Lord rules them through His spirit. This the preachers ardently urge them [to believe], praying that the Lord may rule them through His spirit, may dictate the words to them, may put in their mouth what they should say, that He may be present and lead everyone, that there is nothing except from Him, that human strength is nothing, and that he is as a stump in the act of regeneration. When these things are demonstrated to their very eyes as being so, then because they are in a state of mind to reason about them, and because their faith had been only one of knowing, they wondered about them like others and denied them at heart. But when it was recalled to their memory that in their lifetime they had nevertheless urged others [to believe] these things, and had preached them, indeed in preaching had seemed to themselves to believe them, then they at once acknowledged and affirmed them. This all showed that it had not been a belief of the heart, but of the memory. Just now it also happened when it was being thought about that human beings were so created by the Lord that while in the world, they would also be in heaven with the angels, and thus that heaven must have been joined with the world, one who had been a preacher in his day said that he had been able in preaching so to enlarge on these things