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 the substance of the affections, and that receives their activities and varied potencies, and passes them down through the successive degrees of the body to its lowest.

The highest substance of the brain is the first material clothing to the spiritual substance of affection and thought in the soul; and receiving the impact of its activity, the substances of the brain assume a corresponding motion. Not only does the highest substance in the brain receive an impact, but it is imbued with the endeavor characteristic of affection in as high a form as material substance can receive it. Having received the endeavor, it proceeds as of itself to effect that endeavor on its own plane. This endeavor must necessarily be an effort to gather materials in a corresponding form or to constitute an organism, like the body, for affection to dwell in, and through which affection may operate and accomplish its endeavor. Then when the organism for affection, which the body is, is formed, composed of the senses, the brain, heart, lungs, stomach, and the other organs, the same endeavor abides in these organs, and gifts them with the power to perform their functional uses.