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 is formed from the spiritual world by the father's soul, or that part of the paternal human structure that coincides with the spiritual world (Diagram IV, page 312). The body part is organized by the mother's body, or that part of the parent which coincides with nature. The soul-germ from the father is materially clothed by the seminal fluid, in which it takes on a species of body. It is then conveyed to the ovum by the seminal fluid, where it casts off the material clothing, and from its affinity for a body takes on the germinal body in the ovum from the mother.

All things proceed in the order of end, cause, and effect; that is all things come forth to an end or purpose. The end is use. The end proceeds by cause to effects in ultimates, when what is first becomes the last. The end of plant life is use. Its endeavor is to effect use, the use of supplying the needs of animals and of man. The end or use proceeds by causes, which the spiritual world is, to effects, which the natural world is, and produces a tree which was the end, but when produced is the last. End, cause, and effect continue likewise in the tree. End or use proceeding in the spiritual counterpart of the tree as the cause, to the material tree as the ultimate, produces fruit or seed for human use,