1406. So long as any man supposes that he leads himself, and that he understands from himself, he cannot have such perceptions and persuasions, and he then considers them to be fables, and perhaps he prejudges them as enthusiasms, for such men suppose that anything they cannot understand has no existence. Moreover, those who have been learned in their lifetime could not believe this in the other life. However, now at last they do believe it, but only intellectually, and because it has been demonstrated to them by experience. Such experience can be granted to souls in the other life, but whether to men in the body in the same way, I do not as yet know. 1748, Mar. 15.