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 fluid of the body its energies, causing its particles to become images of the Creator by receiving something of His nature. These material particles are, therefore, clothings to corresponding spiritual ones which are imbued with life from the Creator, and consequently they are full of the endeavor to produce His image, which is the human form. Thus when the substance of affection and thought is so shaped and formed in the brain and carried on to ultimates through the organism of the body and deposited in the seminal vessels, there are formed from it perfected seeds capable of producing human beings, when suitable material and conditions are provided.

As plant life flows through the tree into the seed, terminating there and making it a receptacle of plant life and thus a rudimentary plant, which has been explained in detail, so human life, flowing through the human organism, terminates in the seed and makes it a receptacle of human life and a rudimentary human form. The human seed, like every other, is the ultimate form in which its characteristic life terminates and abides. Its forces are in the constant endeavor to unfold their full correspondential form, which they do when the necessary conditions are provided.

In the formation of the human seed the soul part