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Rh and permanence of the latter and the former is memory, and their reproduction is recollection; all taken together are the human mind."

All life is the Lord's and from Him alone; but man is not the Lord, nor his affection and thought the Lord's love and wisdom; because he is a created receptacle of them, and life as received by him on any plane of his faculties becomes what the form is. Life is brought down into and through the discrete degrees of his mind by correspondence. Because the higher will and understanding correspond to Divine love and wisdom they receive it and bring it down as affection and thought to the lower will and understanding. The correspondence by organic form of the brain with the will and understanding brings these down as inhabitants into the brain as their temporal home; the correspondence of the heart and lungs, by form again, with the will and understanding, brings them into commerce of motion with the body; and the human spirit from within by correspondence with the corporeal human form makes the man a citizen of the natural world.

Any approach to a confounding of the