6. When newcomers to the spiritual world are in this first state, angels come to them to bid them welcome, and at first are much pleased at this conversation with them, since they know that their thoughts are then no different from what they were when still living in the former world. So they ask them what they think about life after death, to which the newcomers reply in keeping with their previous ideas. Some say that they do not know, some that they are spirits or etherial shapes, some that they are diaphanous, airy bodies, some that they are flitting ghosts, some in the air or ether, some in water, some in the middle of the earth; and some say that souls like angels are among the stars; some of the newcomers say that no man lives after death.