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50 of man is in a form as well as his body, and that its form is the human; that it enjoys senses and sensories when separated from the body, just the same as when it was in it; and that all the life of the eye, and all the life of the ear, in a word, all the sensative life man enjoys belongs not to his body but to his spirit; for his spirit is in them and in every minutest part thereof. Hence it is that spirits see, hear and feel the same as men; but after separation from the body their perceptions are all of things in the spiritual world. The natural sensation he has in the physical body is by means of the material which is adjoined to it; but even then he enjoys spiritual sensation at the same time by thinking and willing. These observations are made in order that the rational man may be convinced that man in himself is a spirit, and that the corporeal frame adjoined to him for the sake of performing functions in the natural world, is not the man but only an instrument for the use of his spirit."

The question arises here, as to the reason for this connection between the soul and the natural body, and the mode of it. In