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86 ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLOGY.
CHAPTER VIII.
OF THE ORGANIC SYSTEM.
In the or we organic vegetative system, have several
things to consider ; as,
1. The acting force, or ganglionic nervous system, in
which resides the first principles of vitality. Of the
nature of this force we know —of nothing its action we
have much to observe, and we have much to learn of
the laws which govern that action.
2. The matter acted upon ; and this is the blood, or
nutritive fluid, from its formation by the assimilation
and vitalization of aliment, to the last and highest pro
ducts of secretion and elimination.
3. The apparatus of various kinds by which these
processes are performed. These are the organs of
digestion, absorption, assimilation, circulation, respira
tion, nutrition, secretion, excretion.
The central thing here, it will be seen, is the blood,
and we shall have further to consider the relations of
this fluid, and here, also, under three aspects :
1. The relation of the blood to the food, from which
it is formed.
2. To the atmosphere by which it is purified and
vitalized ; and,