690. CONCERNING TWO WITH WHOM I CONVERSED SOON AFTER THEIR DEATH There were two who had been known to me during the life of the body, one of whom had died about six months ago, the other about two months. They were as though in a dream, because in their phantasies they were altogether ignorant that they were in the other life, supposing that they were still living in the body. After I had told them certain things, I showed them that they were in the other life; still they could not believe it, until it was shown them to the life. They behaved themselves just as they had done in the life of the body; they inhered in similar phantasies.
690 1/2. One of them was quite learned in earthly things, and was esteemed. His faith was communicated to me. It was such, as I could recognize in a spiritual manner, as to be altogether nothing, for it was entirely suffocated by earthly sciences, so that he did not believe in a life after death, in the existence of spirits, still less in a heaven. Thus his faith was buried in the sciences.
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