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 of their causes. The Spiritual opens to receive and perceive internal order and life. The Spiritual and the Scientific are in Correspondence, the former being formed by spiritual truth and the latter by natural truth or science.

The Celestial, b, is the highest plane of consciousness. It is the plane that receives and sensates supreme love to the Lord. It is opened and developed by continuing on still further and removing evils and errors from the Sensual, g, and by bringing the whole man into Divine order through the acquisition of the truth and life proper to the Celestial plane. The Celestial differs from the Spiritual as love differs from wisdom, or as acting from love differs from acting from truth. Supreme love for self and the world rules in the merely natural man. He recognizes only self. The natural man becomes rational, and the Rational is opened and developed in him as he acknowledges and obeys the Lord, though only in the external degree of natural good and truth. The Spiritual and the Celestial may be distinguished by these further considerations. The Spiritual, or the spiritual man, acknowledges spiritual and celestial truth and good, but from the principle of faith; while the Celestial, or celestial man, does the same, yet from faith grounded in good. The end ruling in the spirit-