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 of man in the plane of nature or matter. All that our natural eyes ever behold of our loved ones or friends or neighbors is the material body that they inhabit.

Yet the real thing that distinguishes those we know from one another and causes us to like or dislike them is not the body chiefly, but the spiritual part of them that we cannot see with our natural eyes. We recognize that the spiritual part is the part that really lives, and acts through the material body. This part we perceive with the eyes of our mind or our spirit.

Let us make the distinction very clear and marked between the material and the spiritual. They are totally distinct in kind, although acting together as a one.

Matter has in itself fixedness or immobility. It is perceptible to the senses. It is subject to the limitations of time and space. It is capable of being weighed and measured in very material ways.

Affection and thought, which constitute the quality and expression of the spiritual part of us, cannot in themselves be perceived by the five senses; their effects upon the material body may be observed, but not the things themselves.