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Rh and writing; he never makes a mistake of sitting for these purposes at his coal-skuttle. Apply this to the body, and we find that its dweller uses every implement there also according to its form. The reverent soul kneels in the knees, because they are natural kneelers. The enquiring soul peers through the eyes, for they are born windows. The make of the organ is the handle whereby the inner man grasps and uses it."

In general then man lives first in this world as to his conscious sensations, plans and determinations, by virtue of the fact that his spiritual body is clothed in a corresponding and perfectly adjusted physical body, through which his senses open out upon the natural world. Its objects and relations thus supply him with objects of affection and thought, which in the mind become again the object of a higher thought and more interior affection. At the death of the physical body, which consists in such disorder and disarrangements of parts that it no longer corresponds to the spiritual body, nor fits the mind as an instrument, whence the spirit is unable to inflow and actuate it, then the man awakes to sensible cognizance of the objects of the