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 g represents the natural body. G represents the Spiritual Body, f, e, d, represent respectively the Sensual, Scientific, and Rational planes of the Natural Mind. F, E, and D represent respectively the Spiritual-Natural, Spiritual, and Celestial planes of the Spiritual Mind. C represents the Inmost, or most interior plane of man. B is the Divine Proceeding or Holy Spirit. A represents the Creator, from whom all are sustained. Let us observe some of the reasons whereby it is known that such degrees exist, and consider what they are.

The lowest plane of the mind in the body is the sensual, f, by which is meant that plane of the mind that sees, hears, feels, smells, and tastes. The senses are faculties not of the body, but of the mind that is in the body. This plane the infant develops first. The first delights of infants are the delights of the sensual plane, for the higher planes are not yet opened or developed. Prior to the development of the Sensual plane, all that the infant sees, hears, feels, smells, or tastes is felt and seems to be within it at the seat of sensation. The sounds from without are as though they were within, and all experience is nothing other than the infant's own being. Before distance is learned, the landscape is without perspective. The infant will reach for things distant