685. For in bodily life there are different objects that move the senses and arouse a person, even to distraction; and besides these there are desires, which are inner objects, that cling like glue or something sticky. When we are infected with these desires, then no matter what someone else says, we stick to our desires, that being what is generally dominant in us. Therefore, a grasp of matters like that spoken of [684] cannot exist in a person while living in the body, but it exists in a soul upon arrival in the other life and joining in the company of others. I also told these things to the spirits around me, and they affirmed them. 1748, 8 February.