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 comprehend the external order proper to the spiritual world, and to man as an inhabitant of it. As they are the lower laws of the spiritual world, they are the laws of man's spiritual comfort and well being. The Spiritual-Natural plane of the mind is of the order that, in brief, perceives that the commandments are the laws of the Creator, of the mind, and therefore ought to be kept, and that through obedience thereto one receives the intelligence and satisfactions that are in Divine external order. The Spiritual-Natural is distinguished from the Rational as morality differs from rationality. The Spiritual-Natural is opened and developed by removing evils and falsities from the Rational, and by the acquisition of truth and life proper to the Rational. The Spiritual-Natural and the Rational are in Correspondence.

The Spiritual plane, c, is next in order. It comprehends the causes of the external law and order of the spiritual world and of the spirit. It is opened and developed by the further removal of evils and falsities from the Scientific, f, and the adoption of spiritual truths and their coördinate life. It differs from the Spiritual-Natural as a life according to spiritual laws with the knowledge of causes, differs from a life according to laws from simple obedience without a knowledge