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 the creation of the human body the brain is first delineated, and from it are put forth extensions, which are developed into heart and lungs, and by these extensions the body is formed. The brain is the material organ of the mind. The mind can not take form without a brain; the brain can not operate the body without heart and lungs; the heart and lungs have no power without the outermost incasing body. Nor have the brain, the mind, or the soul power to act in the world apart from the body. But when the soul has formed a brain, heart and lungs, and a body, the soul dwells in fulness and power in the ultimate body. The soul or mind is supreme and the first. It proceeds by intermediates, the brain, heart, and lungs, to form the body, and then resides therein in fulness and power to perform uses. In a larger series uses were first, and formed the soul as a cause; and the soul as a cause formed the body as an effect. Uses proceeded by the soul to the ultimate body, wherein the first or use becomes the last in the uses of the body. Thus it is in general and in every particular that the end terminates in the effect, and there resides in fulness, perfection, and power. Later we will notice how the Creator as the end, through the spiritual world as a cause, formed the natural world as the effect.