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 body, and a natural life. The assertion that there are "ears that hear not" and "eyes that see not" is not a mere hyperbole, but a real fact based upon the existence of a whole set of interior faculties, though they be yet undiscovered and undeveloped.

If the eye and ear set in the body are not used as a means of opening the inner vision and of unstopping the inner sense of understanding, human life cannot rise higher than animal life. The eye and ear set in the material body are primarily intended as the means of developing the inner, human faculties that beasts have not. When the inner eye of mental vision is opened and the inner ear of understanding is unstopped, the material senses become not rulers, but servants. But if the eye and ear of the body are not made to perform the office of opening the eye and ear of the soul, the human mind becomes blighted and closed to