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 its organs of sense is, on spiritual planes, a parallel of the material body with its organs of sense. The soul with its organs of sense as interiors is within the body with its organs of sense as ultimates; and all of the interior discrete degrees of the soul are in simultaneous order in the ultimates of the body, and act as one with them. And since power acts from ultimates to interiors, the interiors immediately become such as is the form of activity in the ultimate. Hence all sensation is in the soul, and is possible only to the spiritual senses.

The body being the material organism that forms for the spirit an avenue to nature's activities, upon the separation of the spirit from the body, which event is called death, the material world can no longer be sensated by the spirit; though the spirit, because of its complete organization, continues a sentient being, with the use of all the senses, in the spiritual world. As the senses of the body are those of the soul brought down to the plane of passive matter, by which they are limited, bounded, and terminated, in the soul they are as much more acute and superior as spiritual substance is more active than matter.