6079. 'For the famine is serious in the land of Canaan' means that there is a lack of such forms in the Church. This is clear from the meaning of 'the famine' as a lack of good, dealt with in 5893; and from the meaning of 'the land of Canaan' as the Church, also dealt with above, in 6067.

2481. That people after death, that is, spirits, have lost nothing at all of the things which constitute their exterior or physical memory, but retain the whole, or every part of it, though they are not allowed to summon up from it the particulars of their life, I have been given to know from much experience, as may become clear from the following incidents: Two people whom I had known during their lifetime, and who had been enemies, met each other. I heard one describing the other's character with many episodes, also describing the opinion he had formed of him. He repeated an entire letter which he had written to him, as well as many other points in succession which were particulars and belonged to his exterior memory, which the other person acknowledged but without making any comment.