It is usual in the other life for them to be brought back into the state of childhood, youth and adolescence, so completely that they do not know but that they are in their childhood, youth and adolescence. Someone just now was brought back into that state, who then did not know, nor speak, differently than he did in his early adolescence, and indeed with his parents and grandparents, who had previously been unable to love him on account of the actual way of life he had taken on himself. But now with the parents the love of their children, or storge,* had been aroused, and they loved him tenderly. Their love was also communicated to me. In fact, he spoke in such a way that if he had not been a boy, he could have driven the parents to indignation, for out of rivalry with a brother in childhood, he said that he would take away everything. Through the words one could feel that childish [urge] to take away the love of the parents, for there were many [children]. It was that childishness that they loved, and they comforted him, saying that he could take away nothing. And now I see the brother, who died as a child, now a man, imparting [the thought] that he wanted to give him everything he had, and at that time with tender love, by which the other even against his actual character, was so deeply moved that he shed tears. 1748, 13 Sept. * Greek for "parental love."