I heard spirits speaking among themselves, and a certain one was told that during bodily life, they had gotten whatever they had wished for, and had desired nothing further, so why were they now striving for privileges in heaven? He answered that it should have been revealed to them that there was life after death, then received the reply that if the life after death had been revealed to them, while they were so prone to worshipping other gods, what then? what kind of a life would they have? 1748, 7 June. It was added that they never would have refrained, because they could not refrain from desiring to be the greatest and the richest in the world, so if they had also thought about the other life, what then, except that they would have perished?