30. Further evidence for the character of the spirits from the planet Mercury will be presented in the following sections. It needs to be known that, however many spirits and angels there are, they were all once human beings. The human race is the seed-bed of heaven. Spirits have exactly the same affections and inclinations as they had when they lived as human beings in this world. For everyone's life accompanies him.# This being so, it is possible to know the character of the people of any world by reference to the spirits from it. # His own life awaits each individual and accompanies him after death (AC 4227, 7439 [7440 in original]). The outer levels of one's life are kept closed after death, and the inner levels are opened up (AC 4314, 5128, 6495). At this time all the details of thought are laid bare (AC 4633, 5128).