6038. 'That you are still alive' means a perception of the subsequent life in himself. This is clear from the meaning of 'being alive' in the internal sense as spiritual life, 5890. A perception that this life was present within himself follows from what has gone before (new life came to him from the inflowing and the joining together, 6036) and from the feeling of joy at seeing him, which feeling gave him the perception of the presence of life within himself.