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A represents the Creator, the source of life, toward whom all development tends. I am the vine, ye are the branches."

This diagram may help to fix a clear and well defined distinction in regard to the divisions of the human organism. First there are the two general divisions of the Human Form, the Soul and the Natural Body. The Natural Body is formed exclusively from matter taken from nature. It clothes the Soul, and is its instrument of life and action in the natural world. The Soul is all that part superior to nature collectively, and is formed entirely from the substances of the spiritual world.

The Soul comprises three subdivisions; the Spiritual Body, which clothes the Mind and is its instrument of action in the spiritual world and in the natural body; the Mind, which is in the Spiritual Body as the nerves are in the natural body; and the Inmost, which first receives influx from the Creator. The Mind has two divisions, the Natural or External Mind and the Spiritual or Internal Mind. The Spiritual Mind coincides with the successive degrees of sub-