The same spirit [3156] told me that he was speaking with me in his own language, to which I was prompted to reply, that it was not his own language, but mine, just as those who were far off [2137]. And further [I asked him] whether he supposed that he had lips and a tongue by which he speaks, and what need was there for lips and a tongue in the other life? But he thought he had them. Another spirit, when I stretched out my hand and he thought by a reflection given him that he took hold of it, said that it was he who took hold of it. It was given me to tell him that so he supposes, but that it was I who took hold, and so on. When others insisted that they were my body, so to speak, I was prompted to say that my body is joined to my spirit, so that it is the body of my spirit, and that the body of this spirit was dead. But he therefore only flowed into my spirit, as spirits do into the spirits of others, and