3497. 'He said, Behold now, I am old' means that the state was reached. This is clear from what has been stated above, in 3492, about the meaning of 'growing old'.

2486. The fact that people retain every single detail of their physical memory has also been proved to me very many times from persons with whom I had been acquainted during their lifetime. When I have talked to them they have recollected every single thing which they had done while I was present, or which they had said and thought at the time. From these and many other experiences I have been given to know for certain that man carries with him into the next life everything that belongs to the exterior or physical memory.