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 communication with the spiritual world as the senses of the material body are with the natural world. This plane of the Spiritual Body is the Spiritual- Sensual, h. The Spiritual-Sensual and the Spiritual-Corporeal bear the same relation to each other and to the spiritual world as the Natural-Sensual and the Natural-Corporeal do to each other and to the natural world.

The spiritual senses are set in the spiritual body as the natural senses are set in the natural body. The life which forms, fills and operates them is the Spiritual-Sensual degree of life. Spiritual senses could no more exist without a body in which they are set than could the natural senses without a natural body; nor could it be any more possible for a spiritual being to exist as a conscious person without spiritual senses and a spiritual body, than for a natural being to exist without natural organs of sense and a natural body. The corporeal and sensual degrees of the natural body derive their form and life from the analogous degrees of the spiritual body, with which they are in Correspondence.

The mind sees, hears, smells, tastes, and feels through the senses. In the exercise of these senses knowledge of their correct use is obtained.