12. The sixth state is when he utters truths and performs good deeds from faith and consequently from love. What he brings forth at this point are called a living creature and a beast. And because at this point he starts to act from faith and also simultaneously from love, he becomes a spiritual man, who is called an image. The spiritual life of that man finds its delight in, and is sustained by, the things which are associated with cognitions of faith and with charitable acts, which are called his food; and his natural life finds its delight in, and is sustained by, those which belong to the body and the senses. The latter give rise to conflict until love rules and he becomes a celestial man.

2472. This being so, people cannot speak to one another while in the body except by means of languages consisting of articulated sounds, that is, by means of separable words, and are incapable of understanding one another if they do not know those languages, the reason being that their speech is formed from the exterior memory. But spirits speak to one another by means of a universal language that is distinguished into ideas such as comprise thought itself. They are in this manner able to mix with any other spirit, whatever his language or nationality had been in the world, the reason being that their speech is formed from the interior memory. Everybody enters into the use of this latter language immediately after death because he enters into use of the interior memory, which, as stated, belongs properly to his spirit, see 1637, 1639, 1757, 1876.