290. THAT SOULS AFTER DEATH SEE THEIR PARENTS, CHILDREN, FRIENDS, AND ENJOY INMOST GLADNESS AS A RESULT After death souls mutually see each other, engage in conversation, and indeed suppose that it is just as though they were together on earth; but this is so at first, before they are properly initiated in spiritual things. I can testify this, and at the same time testify that they enjoy inmost gladness, when there had been mutual love between them in the life of the body. 1747, Dec. 3.