46. Again, all who are in like good, even though they have never seen one another before, recognize one another just as men in the world do their kinsmen, relatives and friends. This is because in the other life there are none but spiritual kinships, relationships and friendships, thus such as are of love and faith.# It has been granted me to see this sometimes, when I have been in the spirit, thus withdrawn from the body and so in the company of angels. Then some of these I saw seemed as though known to me from childhood, but others as if not known at all. Those whom I seemed to have known from childhood were such as were in a state similar to that of my spirit, but those who seemed unknown were in a dissimilar state. # All kinships, relationships, connections, and as it were those related by blood, in heaven, are from good, and according to its agreements and differences (n. 685, 917, 1394, 2739, 3612, 3815, 4121).