896. THAT SOULS HAVE THE MEMORY OF PARTICULARS WHEN THE SAME THINGS ARE REPRESENTED TO THEM SPIRITUALLY Whenever any soul whom I had known in the life of his body came to me, being unaware that he was in the other life and supposing that he was still in the body or in the world, and I represented to him by means of spiritual ideas, as if to the life, the persons, places, cities, houses, rooms where he had been or which he had seen in the life of the body, he then recognized them all, just as they were. Thus in the case of souls, particulars also can be recalled to mind by others; they cannot, however, do this of themselves, but only from the man with whom they are. In this way also he can learn that he is in the other life, as well as by many inquiries, such as, Where does he suppose himself to be? in what place? 1748, Feb. 20.