735. These, spirits especially, remain after death in a state without any reflection, and therefore know no otherwise than that they are men and that they are in the world as before. For this reason, also, they remain in their phantasies, and thus live in the disposition in which they died. But as soon as reflection is given them by the Lord, they know that they are in the other life, to which belief they can be led only with difficulty until something, or many things, are given them, upon which they may reflect. But the phantasies inrooted in their disposition still remain.