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 the real person to begin his existence, is laid off at death that the person may enter into the full use of the spiritual faculties opened or formed through his abode in nature, and into full and conscious existence in the spiritual world, which is coincident with the degrees of the spiritual mind.

What death is may be graphically illustrated by Diagram IV, Page 312. It consists in laying off the organism marked k and l in the Natural Body. Whereupon the natural world becomes imperceptible, there being no longer the organism of the material senses by which there is Correspondence with the natural world. The Soul, being a complete spiritual organism in itself, continues on in all ways a living, thinking, willing, sentient being by Correspondence with the coincident planes of the spiritual world. The material body with its limitations being laid off, the Soul becomes, according to its preparation, fully plastic and responsive to influx from the spiritual world, and then is realized the awakening of faculties, the intenser life, and the interior Divine satisfaction that the natural eye "hath not seen" and the natural "ear hath not heard." The Spiritual Mind opens consciously to life and activity on coincident planes of the spiritual world, just as the person lived in nature in planes coin-