There are many differences between the states of spirits and of those same spirits when they were people on earth, spoken of sporadically. Here it should only be mentioned that those on earth have objects of sense that move, change and flex their inner senses, which is not the case with spirits. People on earth live in societies that bring them together for various reasons and are consequently not homogeneous but heterogeneous, while spirits are brought together with their like. People on earth enjoy a bodily memory from which they draw their own personal data, while spirits do not; they also deliberate on things to come on the basis of things past, which is not the case with spirits, who do not have a memory of past events, unless this is aroused for specific purposes. People on earth do not penetrate far into the thoughts of others, while spirits do so much farther, but differently. They see in others whatever comes from themselves. Human thoughts are linked to bodily elements as their organic substances; not so those of a spirit. 1748, 20 May.