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 ual regards eternal life, and thereby the Lord. The end ruling in the Celestial primarily regards the Lord, and thereby eternal life.

The Celestial, which sensates Divine love, is in Correspondence with the sensual, which sensates in the ultimate. It will be observed that the Natural Mind is regenerated in an order the reverse of that according to which it is formed, and that the regenerate return to a regenerated childhood.

Such is the relation of the Spiritual Mind to the Natural Mind that the Celestial has its ultimate in the Sensual; the Spiritual, in the Scientific; and the Spiritual-Natural, in the Rational: and each plane of the Natural Mind has its ultimate in the Limbus.

The Inmost, a, is the highest plane in the human organism. It is above the mind, and consequently above the plane of consciousness. It is the first to receive activity from the Creator, and from its activity life in the planes below it is derived, and consciousness is made possible.

By this series of discrete degrees the human form reaches upward to receive life from the Creator; as the psalmist says, "Thou hast made him a little lower than God (Elohim)"