5561. I have been shown how small is the amount of spiritual life present in those spirits who correlate with the bones. Used as mouthpieces by other spirits, they know little about the things they declare. Even so they do declare things, taking delight solely in the act of so declaring them. Reduced to a state like this are those people who led an evil life and yet had certain remnants of goodness stored away within them. These remnants, after vastations lasting for ages and ages, are what produce that small amount of spiritual life. For what remnants are, see 468, 530, 560, 561, 660, 1050, 1738, 1906, 2284, 5135, 5342, 5344. As has been stated, these spirits possess only a small amount of spiritual life, by which life is meant the life that angels in heaven possess. While in the world a person is introduced to it by means of matters of faith and charity. An actual affection for the good of charity, an affection also for the truth of faith, is what constitutes spiritual life. Without that affection a person's life is a natural, worldly, bodily, and earthly one, which is not spiritual life if it does not hold such an affection within itself but a life such as animals in general possess.