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 three distinct planes or discrete degrees. These three degrees may be again illustrated by three persons; the Celestial, by one who does all things from a love so intuitive and discerning that the processes of thought are not conscious in efficient and correct action; the Spiritual, by another who does likewise, but from the thought of what is right and just; and the Spiritual-Natural, by another who does the same, but only from simple obedience or from the delights and uses of external harmony.

In saying that scientific truths are obtained by means of the senses, or that a higher plane is developed by means of the next lower, it is not to be thought that the senses discover scientific truths, or that any lower plane of truth can reach up and obtain a higher. The particular office performed by a lower plane of knowledge is that it acts as an ultimate for the insinuation and development of the next higher. For so man ascends this Jacob's ladder.

There is yet one other essential of the human form, that called the Inmost, C. It is the most