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 upon the nerves of the spiritual finger to which the nerves of the material finger ascend. This change is experienced as sensation. In this process the impression is conveyed to the brain and simultaneously to the mind by their acting as one. The sensation of touch is therefore produced by the disposition of the material sense-organ, and by the correspondingly affected life-force. The induced form of the material organism is the external cause of sensation, and the inflowing life-force as thereby affected is the internal cause.

The vibrating bell communicates its motion to the air, and the air affects the ear. By the ear is not meant simply the external ear and drum, but the ear's entire physical organism in all its planes. The air produces a synchronous vibration in the material ear, which clothes the spiritual ear, a perfect spiritual counterpart to the material ear, and so delicately adjoined to the material covering that it is affected by its vibration through the inflowing life-force taking on a form of action in Correspondence with the form of activity in the ultimate. Thereby the inflowing life-force is correspondingly affected, which effect is perceived as sound. The disposition of the material ear made by the vibrating bell and the atmosphere is the external cause of