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ROSICRUCIAN PHILOSOPHY
sometimes complain of pain in the member for a few years
after the operation. Then the pain ceases because the
etheric arm has decayed synchronously with the limb in the
grave.
The vital bod}'' of the plant is only composed of the two
densest ethers the chemical ether and the life ether
which enable the plant to grow and propagate, but it lacks
the two higher ethers the light ether and reflecting ether
hence it has no sensation or memory of what passes
around it. Therefore, amputation
of a limb will not be
felt by the plant, and in the case of the cliff which is
blasted, only the chemical ether is present, so that the crys-
tals will have no feelings at all. Still, it would be wrong
to infer that there is no feeling in either of these cases,
for though the plants and the minerals have no individual
means of feeling, they are enveloped and interpenetrated
by the ethers and the Desire World of the planet, and the
Planetary spirit feels everything, on the same principle
that our finger, having no individual desire body, cannot
feel, but we, the indwelling spirits inhabiting the body,
feel any hurt done to the finger.