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 man, is properly called the Limbus or "border." It is that in the material body which is immediately responsive to the spiritual substance of which affection and thought are predicated, and which therefore constitutes their first covering in the body. The Limbus is the mind's first servant in the body, and might be designated as the material part of the mind, since it acts so closely with it. It is that in the body wherein affections, thoughts, and all experiences are registered. It is within the brain and nerves, and is their highest and purest fluid.

Since the spiritual body serves the mind within it as the natural body does the soul, whereby the mind has a covering and instrument of action in the spiritual world, it must necessarily have a degree of life that vitalizes its lower parts, repairs them, and makes them a habitation for the mind. Therefore that degree in the spiritual body which is analogous to the Corporeal degree in the Natural Body is the Spiritual-Corporeal, i, and its vital force is Spiritual-Corporeal life.

That man may sensate spiritual things, and as a spiritual being see, hear, smell, taste, and feel in the spiritual world, the spiritual body must have organs of these senses set in it that are in