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 provides the nerve fluids, and that the highest atmosphere about the globe supplies the materials for the highest part of the material body that is next to the spirit. The highest organization of the material body is its inmost. It is called the Limbus (border), because it borders on the spirit. The Limbus provides the connection between the spiritual body and the grosser part of the material body. It is shown in Diagram IV., p. 312.

A knowledge of the uses of the Limbus provides the explanation of the relation between the life lived in this world, and what it must be in the other, and a beautiful philosophy of the relation of the soul to the body. By the Limbus existence here is made possible, as well as in the hereafter. In it lies the fixity of human character and the preservation of our identity through the countless ages in the spiritual world. A knowledge of its uses also presents the serious side of life by showing how our failure to fulfil life's higher purposes here must bear its effects forever. It makes the Christian life one worthy of every sacrifice, and of constant interest and zeal by revealing how momentous our defects and how great and lasting our virtues are.

The Limbus is that plane or substance in the body that first responds to affection and thought.