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While the Natural Mind is passing through this orderly development, the Spiritual Mind is undergoing changes in preparation for its own similar advancement on its distinctive planes. As there is an influx through it to the Natural Mind, the designed development of the Natural Mind opens the Spiritual Mind to a greater and stronger influx whereby it is all prepared for its easy and rapid progress in its mission when the Natural Mind has reached the required state.

It is not intended that human development should stop with the acquisition of rational truths. The Rational plane exists that as man ascends from truths of the scientific order to those of a rational order, so he may by means of the Rational ascend to those lying just above or back of rational truths, which are the lowest truths or facts of the spiritual world. The lowest plane of truth in the spiritual world, analogous to the natural laws of the natural world, some have called the "natural laws of the spiritual world." This is a misnomer. We have chosen to call it the spiritual-natural plane; and the laws, spiritual-natural laws. The plane of the mind that