3731. But in the other life I have not yet known a single spirit for several years who does not see what an idea is, because I see it. And they are amazed now that there are such people on earth, when yet they themselves had also been such, and are such if I would not have a very distinct notion of an idea or mental image.
3731. But in the other life I have not yet known, for several years, one spirit who does not perceive what an idea is, because it is perceived by me; and they now wonder that men are such, when they also were such, and are such, except so far as I have some distinctness of idea.
3731. At in altera vita nondum scio unum spiritum intra aliquot annos, qui non percipit quid idea, quia percipitur a me; et mirantur nunc quod homines tales sint, cum ii quoque tales fuerunt, et tales sunt, si non ego haberem notionem distinctiorem ideae.