684. CONCERNING THE PRE-EMINENCE OF THE FACULTIES OF A SOUL OR SPIRIT ABOVE THE FACULTIES HE POSSESSED WHEN HE LIVED IN THE BODY Besides the pre-eminent faculties which a soul acquires after his release from the body, (concerning which [I have written] before, here and there [nos. 400, 433, 662]), there is also the fact that souls perceive the meanings of ideas, or the sense of a thing, much more fully, and this by means of imaginative representations, the quality of which cannot be adequately described. Ideas are, as it were, formed in certain different ways so that they at once see the sense, that is, it appears as if formed to their sight; thus they derive the fuller sense of things, which could not possibly happen in the life of the body.