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 perceives spiritual-natural laws, or is formed by them and their life, is properly called the Spiritual-Natural, F.

The distinctness of the Spiritual-Natural plane from the Rational may be thus explained. The spiritual world is the realm of causes, for all causes originate there. The proximate causes of effects in the natural world are the lowest forces and laws of the spiritual world, or spiritual-natural laws. The Rational plane is for the purpose of ascending to the knowledge of causes, or what is the same, to the understanding of spiritual-natural laws; hence the Spiritual-Natural is separated from the Rational as the causes in the spiritual world are distinct from their highest effects in the natural world. Since the laws of the spiritual world appertain to that world, the plane of the mind that is formed by them or contains the impressions made by the perception of them, belongs specifically to the spiritual world, and is a plane of the Spiritual Mind. Spiritual-natural laws are not far removed from our experience and comprehension, for they include familiar laws of the mind, which is a spiritual form belonging to the spiritual world.

Spiritual-natural laws are the laws natural to the mind as distinguished from those of the body. They are the laws of common morality. That