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108 ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLOGY.
and vaguely known as impressibility ;
tion.
nerves of sensa
3. Voluntary motion, including all language, natural
and acquired, and all modes of expression ;
motion and muscular system, with its relations.
nerves of
The organism of this series is symmetrical,
up of two halves. .This is true of the bones, muscles,
or made
etc., of the motive system ; it is true of the senses and
of the brain. In this respect, these organs differ notably
from the heart, stomach, liver, and the whole digestive
apparatus.
The correspondence of the two sides of the animal
system is not perfect. One side is often larger than the
other, and the cerebral convolutions of the two sides do
not precisely match ; still there is no more doubt of the
pairing of organs in the brain than of the senses and
limbs.
The animal system is one of central life, and of rela
tion. The brain exists and nets in itself; it receives
through the senses; it gives in action and expression.
Sensation in the animal system, corresponds to the
swallowing of food in the organic. Perception is the
digestion and assimilation ; thought, passion, and will
are the nutritive and secretive processes ; and both
functions join in all action, which is at once the evolu
tion of force from the consumption of matter, and by
this means the expression of the soul.
The real man has his analogue in the verb, "a word
which signifies to be, to do, or to suffer." Man is ac
tive, passive, and neuter ; the neuter is the central
state of being; passivity is the condition of influx or
Bensation; and the result is the condition of action or