426. UNLESS THEY RETAIN THEIR PHANTASIES, AND ARE LED BY THEIR PHANTASIES, THE SOULS OF THE DEAD CANNOT BE LED TO COGNITIONS, AND SO BE PREPARED FOR HEAVEN At this day when there is no faith, and scarcely anyone could have been prepared for heaven in the other life, because in an inverted order of life, there are mere phantasies or hallucinations of the senses, which remain in souls, that is, in their natural mind, or "animus", where the life of the man living at this day especially is. This soul, full of so many phantasies, is not broken, that is, his phantasies cannot be immediately shaken off or extinguished, for thus the man would be broken and nothing as to his sensitive life would remain, for it is composed of mere phantasies. This can be confirmed from so many things that no doubt whatever can be raised against it. There is insanity in all things, and this insanity governs and composes the life of man. A certain one has now been left by the spirits who were acting together with him; he then appeared as though he were not alive, being thus deprived of phantasies. He was supposed to be as if dead. But still this could only demonstrate that such a man cannot enter into the other life; in such a state he can learn nothing. 1747, Dec. 30.