3129. So spirits are in a more perfect state than when they were people on earth, in order to be like they are, for they are held in it by the Lord. The difference is about the same as that between hearing, and sight separate from hearing-which they have because the memory of personal things has been separated from them. If they were to think at the same time from this memory in the other life together with other spirits, who [think] in mental images, the memory of personal things would be so disrupted that it would become entirely insane. 1748, 12 Sept.