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Each plane of the human constitution is in itself an organism that receives into itself the influx of vital action, and appropriates it to its own uses, whereby the influx is transformed by the particular nature of the receiving organism, and is passed on successively by each plane as coming from the plane itself. The Mind, receiving and transferring the influx according to its form, affects accordingly the Natural Body. Or, in general, influx proceeds from inmosts to ultimates according to the law of Correspondence.

The influx from one plane to another is not like water flowing over a succession of terraces, nor like wheat falling through a series of sieves in a fanning-mill; but each plane receives according to its form and genius, and passes on the influx as from itself, transformed and accommodated. The lowest plane, being fixed, can not pass the influx on, but its office is reactive, whereby inflowing powers are conserved, and caused to yield their powers in ultimates, and thereby in higher planes. Influx having descended to