5. The reason the recently dead find this likeness in everything is that their minds remain exactly as they were in the world; and because the mind is not confined to the head but pervades the whole body, it has a similar body, for the body is an organ of the mind and runs without a break from the head. The mind is therefore the man himself, but he is then not a material but a spiritual man; and because after death he is the same man, he is presented in accordance with the concepts in his mind with things similar to those he possessed at home in the world. But this lasts only a few days. That the mind pervades the whole body, and is the man himself who lives after death, is perfectly plain from the synchronisation of the speech of the mouth and the actions of the body with the mind's wish and thought. For the mouth instantly utters what the mind thinks, and the body instantly executes what the mind wishes. The error of believing that man after death lives as a soul or mind, and that this does not have human shape, but is a kind of vapour as of the breath or a bubble full of air, is due to ignorance that the mind constitutes the interior form of the whole body.