1719. On this account, people should beware of those opinions that some spread around and impress on others, to the effect that spirits are entirely without senses, that spiritual beings lack all the kind of feeling they had had while living in their bodies. I have learned the contrary to be true, which has been demonstrated to my very senses by a thousand and again a thousand experiential proofs. To this I can swear and testify, and if they do not wish to believe it due to their own assumptions and opinions regarding spiritual beings, let them take care when they come in the other life, where actual experience will make them believe what they do not believe here in the world. People of ancient times never held such a belief about spirits, but nowadays, trying to investigate the nature of spirits not from the Word of the Lord, but from their own cerebral reasoning, they deprive them by their definitions and assumptions of all sensory properties. Thereby they deny their own inward and more inward parts of any such properties, those very parts which in fact project themselves into the outward parts, and are in fact what sensate, even though they appear in the outward parts in such a way that people believe it is the eye that sees, the ear that hears. Yet they can understand that the eye is only an organ that transmits visible objects, while it is the inward minds that see, and hear. The sensory faculties are entirely dead without the inward ones, as is abundantly obvious. From all this it may be clear that the senses abide in the spirits, or spiritual essences of mankind; consequently, that they live on in souls after death. And as long as people lack a true belief, their belief consists of fantasies having this real effect.