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 like manner the intelligence with which matter takes its place in animal bodies is due to the animal soul, which in the beginning of its development is a rudimentary form or seed produced according to the same principles that a plant seed is. There is the spiritual part in the animal seed, which clothes itself with a correlative material form from the ovum. The forces of animal life acting upon and within the spiritual part, which is a series of degrees coincident with corresponding ones in the spiritual world, unfold the spiritual part when the material part is rightly conditioned, and cause it to clothe itself from nature. The soul, having woven for itself out of nature's substances a body that invests it, subsequently repairs and vivifies it, and endows it with its own endeavors.

Both plant life and animal life vary in quality, thereby giving rise to different kinds of plants and animals. The interior life fashions from spiritual substances a structure for its indwelling that is the representative and outbirth of it and in Correspondence with it. Likewise the soul clothes itself with a corresponding body. The principles of their formation are the same as those that shape the human face to correspond to the states of the mind whereby the wise appear intelligent, the cultured show refinement,