CHAPTER II.
THE SPHERE OF LUST.
Man possesses three natures—the animal or sensuous
nature, the intellectual and moral nature, and the divine
nature. Mind, in whatever department it is
manifested, possesses two qualities—perception and
affection, and understanding and love; or, when understanding
is united with true affection, wisdom and
love. I have heretofore said, that since man, in the
lowest department of his being, is animal in his character,
possessing the faculty of perceiving facts and
phenomena, that faculty was the perceptive part of his
animal being which embraces self-love, or a desire
after self-gratification. That portion of the mind which
pertains to the second part of man's nature was described
as being that which investigates the laws and
relation of things, inquires into what relates to that
department of nature called the scientific, and studies
that which relates to man and society. What is called
the moral department of man's being is that which relates
to the affectional part of his nature, and which is
called moral love or charity. That which pertains to
the divine or absolute of man's being was said to embrace
the religious element in him; through which
department the Infinite, as the absolute of being and
