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 the body is builded, the essential architect of the material form.

It is the particular, delicate, and complex organization of the soul and its superior order of substances that enable it to be endowed with the faculties of affection, thought, sensation, and the essentials of self-consciousness. The soul is not like a marble statue with all its molecules in a common mass. That it thinks and loves, shows that it is most highly organized. It must have organs for its faculties and powders. No faculty or power exists in the body apart from an organ of which it is predicated. The organs of the soul are as numerous as those of the body, indeed they are like them; for the soul forms the body by Correspondence, whereby the organs of the body are operated by corresponding ones of the soul. The soul could not construct the body in any other than its own form; consequently the body is an organism like the soul, and clothes it part for part. As the particles of dust disclose the form of the invisible air in the whirlwind, so the body reveals the form of the soul.

Having shown that the soul and the spiritual world are real, substantial forms, we are prepared to consider their structure in particulars. To bring at once before the mind the human structure in its successive degrees, diagram II is here introduced.