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 organs of the spiritual body are similarly impressed, through their close affinity, by the inflowing life-force coming into Correspondence with the ultimate. Thus originate all sensations. The inflowing life-force is from the activity of the spiritual substances which are coincident with or in Correspondence with the spiritual sense-organs. The natural body is an outer covering to the spiritual body, which it serves as an instrument of action in the natural world. The organs of the senses set in the natural body are subsidiary to the analogous ones in the spiritual body, and are organisms whereby, through the successive, ascending planes of their structure, activities in nature are perceived by the mind, which is organized on the planes of the spiritual world. Thus man as a spiritual being is enabled, while clothed with the natural body, to sensate activities in the natural world. The material eye has no more capacity to see than has the eyeglass of the jeweller; nor the ear to hear than the ear-trumpet of the deaf. The senses of the body are simply vehicles by which the spirit descends to and cognizes the material creation. Or, reversely, the senses of the body are mechanisms by which nature's activities are carried up to meet the activities of the spiritual world as they exist in the spiritual senses. The soul with