684. About the excellence of the faculties of a soul or spirit, compared with the faculties they had while living in the world
Besides the superior faculties a soul acquires after being released from the body, spoken of previously here and there [400, 433, 662], there is also the fact that they grasp a much richer meaning in mental images, or in a given subject. This is due to their pictorial mental imagery, but what it is like cannot be adequately described. These images are ideas, shaped in definite, diverse ways so that they at once see the meaning, which appears as if shaped to the sight. Thus they receive a fuller meaning of things, in a way that is not possible in the life of the body.