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 as readily as for an object but a few feet away. Before its senses are developed, all things blend in unclassified mass. By reaching, it learns distance. By observing, it places sound at its mother's lips. By experience, it learns to see, hear, smell, taste, and feel correctly. This learning is called sensual knowledge. That plane of the mind in which sensual life acts and into which sensual knowledge is gathered is the Sensual plane. Or it may be said that the plane of the mind employed only in the exercise of the senses is the Sensual.

By means of the senses set in the body, facts are learned, as that birds fly; the sun shines; certain foods are wholesome; heat makes steam, and the like. Thus by means of the senses there is gathered a series of facts distinctly above the merely sensual experiences. These facts are those of science, and the plane of the mind that contains them, or is formed by them, is the Scientific, e. The Scientific plane is distinctly separated from the Sensual, it being a discrete degree higher. To observe the distinction it should be noticed that the mind is composed of substances wrought into forms. The Sensual plane is composed of forms wrought in its substance by impressions made upon the senses. The Scientific plane is composed of forms wrought