6. When newcomers into the spiritual world are in this first state, angels come to them for the sake of wishing them an auspicious arrival, and at first they are greatly delighted from conversation with them, since they know that they do not think otherwise than that they still live in the former world; wherefore the angels ask them what they think of the life after death, to which the newcomers respond in conformity with their previous ideas; some that they do not know; some that they are breaths or ethereal appearances; some that they are airy transparent bodies; some that they are flitting specters, some of them in ether and air, others in water, and others in the middle of the earth; and some say that they are souls like angels in the stars. Some of the newcomers deny that any man lives after death.