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120 ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLOGY.
faculties and passions. Things feel hot and cold, dry and
moist, smooth and rough, slippery or the reverse, sharp
or dull, hard or soft, rigid or pliable, regular or irregu
lar, circular or angular. It. has other and peculiar rela
tions to the passion of amativeness, and the generative
organs, which belong to a future section.
These are the common avenues through which we
receive our impressions of the universe—the images of
all objects, from stars to infusoria; all sounds, from the
chirp of the insect to the thunder; all sensations of
smell and taste ; all the pleasures and pains of feeling.
In treating of the conditions of health, and the causes
of disease, or, in other words, of the harmonies and
discords of man and his relations, I shall need to illus-
trate this subject further.
St. Paul and Swedenborg, with many other philoso
phers, have said that man has a natural body and a spir
itual body. This is vaguely accepted by those who be
lieve in Paul, and, more definitely, by the followers of
the Swedish sage. There is much reason to believe
that the statement is literally and absolutely true ; and
that for every part and organ of this material body, there
is a corresponding part and organ of the soul ; that the
true substance is spiritual, which presides over, under
lies, molds, forms, and informs the material. If this be
true of the being, as a whole, it must be true in all its
parts. If we have a spiritual head, we must also have
spiritual hands and feet. We must have spiritual eyes,
ears, noses, mouths, tongues, teeth. And, if these, we
must have spiritual brains and nerves; spiritual blood,
heart, arteries, lymphatics ; spiritual lungs, liver, kidneys,
bladder ; spiritual food, secretions, and excretions.