From experience it has become known to me that spirits retain by an inward memory whatever they hear, see, perceive, just as people on earth do by an outward memory, but that they are not able to recall them, only the Lord. That these things are seated in their memory, became known to me from several experiences, as for instance, that the ones who have been present longer know better what has been going on with me than others. Then also, that some of them recalled to memory, as I perceived, what had happened to them after death, such as the things they endured about which I had no knowledge; besides others that I do not remember. 1748, 13 Sept.