1389、进入来世的灵魂惊讶地发现，其他人的思维是以这种方式交流的。他们还惊讶地发现，人们不仅能瞬间知道其他人是哪种性格，还知道他的信是何性质。我告诉他们，一旦与肉体分离，灵人就会获得更出色的能力。在肉身生活期间，感官对象，以及由这些对象留在记忆中的印象所产生的幻想会带来影响或不断流入，更不用说对未来的忧虑；外在刺激所引起的各种贪欲；对衣、食、住和子女的挂怀，等等。在来世，人们从不思想这些东西。当这些想法被当作障碍和阻碍，连同与粗糙的感觉有关的肉体欲望被除去时，人们必然进入一个更完美的状态。这些官能依旧保留，只是更加完美、清晰和自由；这一点尤其适用于那些过着仁爱和对主之信，以及纯真生活的人。他们的官能会得到极大的提升，远远胜过他们在肉身中所拥有的官能，直到最终甚至达到第三层天堂的天使官能。
New Century Edition
Cooper(2008,2013)
[NCE]1389. Souls that had arrived in the other life once expressed their surprise to find that another person's thoughts are communicated in this way. They were also amazed that they could instantly tell not only what kind of character that other person had but also what the person's beliefs were.
I told them that spirits receive abilities far superior once they separate from their bodies. During physical life, objects of the senses have an impact on us, as do fantasies built out of the impressions those objects leave on our memory, not to mention worries about the future; various cravings aroused by external stimuli; concern over food, clothes, housing, and children; and so on. People in the other life never think about any of these things. When such thoughts are set aside as obstacles and barriers, together with bodily desires connected to the coarser sensations, people cannot help being in a more ideal condition. Their former abilities remain but become much more perfect, lucid, and free. This is especially true with people who have lived lives of charity and faith in the Lord, and of innocence. Their capacities are heightened tremendously over the ones they had in the body, until finally their gifts match those of angels in the third heaven.{*1}
Footnotes:
{*1} On the three heavens, of which the third is the highest, see note 1 in 167. [LHC]
Potts(1905-1910) 1389
1389. Souls that have come into the other life have wondered that there is such a communication of another's thoughts, and that they at once know the quality of another person's faith, as well as that of his disposition. But they were told that the spirit receives much more excellent faculties when it has been separated from the body. During the bodily life there is an influx of the objects of the senses; and also of phantasy from those things which thence inhere in the memory; besides anxieties for the future; various cupidities that are excited by external things; cares for food, clothing, place of abode, children; and other things, concerning which they take no thought in the other life; and therefore on the removal of these obstacles and hindrances, together with the corporeal parts that are of gross sensation, they cannot but be in a more perfect state. The same faculties remain, but are much more perfect, clear, and free; especially with those who have lived in charity and faith in the Lord, and in innocence; for the faculties of all such are immensely elevated above those which they had in the body, being finally elevated even to the angelic faculties of the third heaven.
Elliott(1983-1999) 1389
1389. Souls who have entered the next life have been amazed that such a communication of another person's thoughts should exist, and that people should know in an instant not only the nature of another person's turn of mind but also the nature of his faith. They have been told however that, once separated from the body, the spirit acquires far more excellent capabilities. During his lifetime the objects of the senses are flowing in, and also delusions arising from those things which as a consequence are fixed in the memory, in addition to anxieties over the future, various desires aroused by things of an external nature, concern about food, clothing, shelter, children, and many other matters, to which they give no thought at all in the next life. When those obstacles and hindrances have therefore been removed along with bodily things that are part of mere physical sensation, people enter inevitably into a more perfect state. The same capabilities remain, but these are far more perfect, clear, and unrestricted. This is especially so with those who have lived in charity and faith in the Lord, and also in innocence. Their capabilities are heightened enormously, way above those they had had during their lifetime, till at length they come up to the angelic capabilities of the third heaven.
Latin(1748-1756) 1389
1389. Animae quae in alteram vitam venerunt, miratae sunt quod talis communicatio cogitationum alterius daretur, quodque ilico scirent, non solum quali animo sit alter sed etiam quali fide; at illis dictum quod spiritus multo excellentiores facultates accipiat cum separatus est a corpore; in vita corporis influunt objecta sensuum, tum phantasiae ab illis quae inhaerent inde memoriae, praeter solicitudines de futuris, cupiditates varias excitatas ab externis, curas pro victu, vestitu, habitatione, liberis, et plura, de quibus nihil cogitant in altera vita; quare illis ut remoris et impedimentis cum corporeis quae crassae sensationis sunt, remotis, non possunt non in perfectiore statu esse; eaedem facultates remanent sed multo perfectiores, lucidiores, et liberiores; imprimis apud illos qui in charitate et fide in Dominum vixerunt inque innocentia, quorum facultates elevantur in immensum supra illas quas habuerunt in corpore, usque tandem ad angelicas tertii caeli.