As previously mentioned here and there [207, 364-5, 400], souls think they are nowhere else than in the body, which they call being people on earth. So this is what they think, and unless they are given reflection, they are unable to realize that they are spirits. On this subject I have just now spoken with two who had thought they were living in the world, for whatever they had in the body, they still keep. They have all their desires with which bodily life gifts them, as well as their appetites, such as the appetite for eating when they see food they had liked in the life of the body-as one of them affirmed just now when he saw me dining. And I told them that they also keep their senses, sight, hearing, smell, and touch, just as keen as in the body, and just like the bodily sense. I went on to say that they are nonetheless spirits, as they may know upon reflection, and that now there is no need for them to care for their body as they did in the world. Food, clothing and shelter are the cares of people in the world only, and now I am telling them that just for food, clothing and shelter people want to possess the universe, when yet they could be content with very few possessions. And now, in their life as spirits, they have no need of these, so they can now devote themselves to heavenly matters. 1748, 8 March.