A certain spirit quite high overhead, toward the front, just now spoke with me when he heard that I was talking about the spirit, and he said, "What is a spirit?" He thought he was a person on earth, so he wanted to know what a spirit is. I told him that the spirit is in a person on earth, or it is the spirit of a person that thinks, and that the body only serves the spirit for living on earth, and that it is outside of him or her, and that bone and flesh cannot think at all, so there must necessarily be a spirit in the body that when the body is deceased, lives, thinks and speaks. This gave him pause, and I asked whether he had ever heard what the soul is. He said, "What the soul is? I do not know at all what the soul is. I have thought the soul was nothing because I do not understand what the soul is." I was inspired to say that he was now