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 presented, and to bring at once before the eye the human form in its degrees and divisions, Diagram IV is introduced.

Diagram IV represents a complete general outline of the Human Form and its relation to the Creator. Its likeness to previous diagrams will be observed. It differs in embracing more subdivisions, that all the degrees may be seen in their successive order.

To present the subject in a complete form, a brief description of each part of the diagram will here be given, even though it necessitates some repetition.

The natural body contains three distinct planes or degrees: the Natural- Corporeal, the Natural-Sensual, and the Limbus, represented respectively by l, k, and j. All that part of the body below the brain and its ramification of nerves, as the heart, lungs, membranes, blood, or in general the flesh and bones, constitutes the Natural-Corporeal. The flesh and bones constitute a form that has a kind of life in itself and of its own, due to its receiving life and appropriating it according to its organism and degree. This life, by which the part of the body composed of bones and flesh assimilates nutrition, forms, and repairs itself,